Juliana Colyear, Countess of Portmore ( Hele, formerly Juliana Osborne, Duchess of Leeds) ( – 20 November 1794) was an English noblewoman. She was the third wife of

Peregrine Osborne, 3rd Duke of Leeds Peregrine Hyde Osborne, 3rd Duke of Leeds (11 November 1691 – 9 May 1731) was a British peer. Early life He was the second son of Peregrine, Earl of Danby and his wife, the former Bridget Hyde, only daughter of Sir Thomas Hyde, 2nd Baronet. ...

, and later the wife of

Charles Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore Charles Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore, KT (27 August 1700 – 5 July 1785), known as Lord Milsington to 1730, of Portmore House, Weybridge, Surrey, was a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1726 and 1730, when he succe ...

, and mother of the 3rd Earl.

Early life

Juliana was baptised on 1 May 1706 at

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, Devon. She was the daughter and heiress of Roger Hele, of

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, and his wife, the former Juliana Prestwood. After his father's death, his mother married Sir Thomas Putt, 2nd Baronet. Her paternal grandparents were the former Joan Glanville (eldest daughter of Sir

John Glanville Sir John Glanville the younger (1586 – 2 October 1661), was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1644. He was Speaker of the English House of Commons during the Short Parliament. He support ...

) and

Sampson Hele Sampson Hele ( – ) of Gnaton and of Halwell, Devon, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1614 and 1624. Early life Hele was born into the junior line of a minor gentry family which had settled in Devon since at least ...

, MP for

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and

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Personal life

Peregrine Hyde Osborne, by Christian Friedrich Zincke

On 9 April 1725 she married Peregrine Osborne, ''styled'' Marquess of Carmarthen, the future duke at

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. He was the second son, but eldest surviving, of

Peregrine Osborne, 2nd Duke of Leeds Admiral Peregrine Osborne, 2nd Duke of Leeds (1659 – 25 June 1729), styled Viscount Osborne between 1673 and 1689, Earl of Danby between 1689 and 1694 and Marquess of Carmarthen between 1694 and 1712, was an English Tory politician. Backg ...

, and the former Bridget Hyde. Osborne's second wife, the former Lady Anne Seymour (a daughter of

Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset (13 August 16622 December 1748), known by the epithet "The Proud Duke", was an English peer. He rebuilt Petworth House in Sussex, the ancient Percy seat inherited from his wife, in the palatial form which s ...

), had died in 1722. There were no children from her marriage to the duke, who already had a son and heir from his first marriage, to Lady Elizabeth Harley (a daughter of

Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, KG PC FRS (5 December 1661 – 21 May 1724) was an English statesman and peer of the late Stuart and early Georgian periods. He began his career as a Whig, before defecting to a new Tory ...

). He inherited the dukedom from his father in 1729. The duchess was one of the

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to Thomas Coram's petition to establish the

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, which she signed on 24 June 1730. On the duke's early death in 1731, he was succeeded by Juliana's stepson,

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Second marriage

Juliana married

, on 7 October 1732.G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, ''The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed.'', 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume VII, p. 513. The earl, a sporting associate of her first husband, was the son of

David Colyear, 1st Earl of Portmore General (United Kingdom), General David Colyear, 1st Earl of Portmore, (c. 1656 – 2 January 1730) was a Scottish general and Governor of Gibraltar. Early life He was the elder son of Sir Alexander Colyear, 1st Baronet, Sir Alexander Colye ...

and his wife

Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester, Countess of Portmore (21 December 1657 – 26 October 1717), daughter of Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet, was the mistress of King James II of England both before and after he came to the throne. Catheri ...

, daughter of

Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet (March 1639 – 20 August 1701), was an English noble, dramatist and politician. He was principally remembered for his wit and profligacy.. Life He was the son of Sir John Sedley, 2nd Baronet, of Aylesford in Ke ...

and former mistress of King James II. After her second marriage, Juliana continued to call herself Duchess of Leeds. Their children were: # Lady Caroline Colyear (–1812), who married

Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Scarsdale Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Scarsdale (1726 – 5 December 1804) of Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire was an English Tory politician and peer. Early life Curzon was the son of Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 4th Baronet of Kedleston, and his wife Mary Assheton. ...

, and had children # Lady Juliana Colyear (–1821), who married

Henry Dawkins Henry Dawkins II (24 May 1728 – 19 June 1814) was a Jamaican plantation and slave owner and Member of the Parliament of Great Britain (MP). Background The Dawkins family settled on Jamaica shortly after its seizure from the Spanish in 1655. ...

in 1759, and had children # David Colyear, Viscount Milsington (1736–1756), who died unmarried while serving in the

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# William Charles Colyear, 3rd Earl of Portmore (–1823), who married Lady Mary Leslie and had children Lord Portmore died on 5 July 1785. She died on 20 November 1794 at the age of 88 at

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References

English philanthropists 1706 births 1794 deaths People from Marylebone English women philanthropists Wives of knights Leeds, Juliana Osborne, Duchess of Portmore

Juliana Juliana (variants Julianna, Giuliana, Iuliana, Yuliana, etc) is a feminine given name which is the feminine version of the Roman name Julianus. Juliana or Giuliana was the name of a number of early saints, notably Saint Julian the Hospitaller, wh ...

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