Caroline Louisa Cavendish-Bentinck (née Burnaby; baptised 5 December 18326 July 1918) was the maternal grandmother of
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, great-grandmother of
Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022. She was queen regnant of 32 sovereign states during ...
, and great-great-grandmother of
King Charles III.
Early life
Caroline Louisa Burnaby was born at
Baggrave Hall, near Hungarton, Leicestershire on 23 November 1832. She was a daughter of
Edwyn Burnaby of Baggrave Hall and his wife, the former
Anne Caroline Salisbury.
[''The Times'' Tuesday, 9 July 1918; no. 41837, p. col. A] She was baptised on 5 December 1832 at
Hungarton, Leicestershire. She was a sister of
Edwyn Burnaby, a first cousin of
Frederick Gustavus Burnaby, and an aunt of
Algernon Burnaby.
Marriages and issue
Louisa Burnaby married the Rev.
Charles Cavendish-Bentinck, as his second wife, on 13 December 1859.
[''Almanach de Gotha'' (1922) (Justus Perthes, Gotha); ''Almanach de Gotha'' (1904) (Justus Perthes, Gotha)] Rev. Cavendish-Bentinck was the elder son of Lieutenant Colonel
Lord Charles Bentinck and
Anne Wellesley, formerly Lady Abdy. His paternal grandparents were
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland,
Prime Minister
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of
Great Britain
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, and Dorothy Cavendish, a daughter of
William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire. Together Louisa and Charles were the parents of three children:
*
Cecilia Nina Cavendish-Bentinck (1862–1938), who married
Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne.
* Ann Violet Cavendish-Bentinck (1864–1932).
* Hyacinth Cavendish-Bentinck (1864–1916); who married an American, Augustus Edward Jessup, a son of Alfred Dupont Jessup. Augustus was the widower of Lady Mildred Marion Bowes-Lyon.
After her first husband's death in 1865, she married Henry Warren Scott, the son of
Sir William Scott, 6th Baronet, of Ancrum, on 30 September 1870.
[ He died on 23 August 1889 at Forbes House, Ham, Surrey, and was buried in St Andrew's Church, Ham.][''The Times'' Tuesday, 9 July 1918; no. 41837, p. 1, col. A]
Descendants
Through her eldest daughter Cecilia, the Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, she was a grandmother of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and thus the great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II.
Ancestors
References
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Louisa
People from Leicester
1832 births
Year of birth uncertain
1918 deaths