Louisa Scott, Countess of Eldon (16 November 1807 – 18 November 1852),
formerly the Hon. Louisa Duncombe, was the wife of
John Scott, 2nd Earl of Eldon
John Scott, 2nd Earl of Eldon (10 December 1805 – 18 September 1854) was a British peer and Tory politician.
Background and education
Eldon was the only child of John Scott (1774–1805), MP for Boroughbridge, the only son of Lord Chancellor Jo ...
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She was the daughter of
Charles Duncombe, 1st Baron Feversham
Charles Duncombe, 1st Baron Feversham (5 December 1764 – 16 July 1841), was a British Member of Parliament.
Biography
Feversham was born the eldest son of Charles Slingsby Duncombe of Duncombe Park and educated at Harrow school (1799).
Fev ...
, by his wife, the former Lady Charlotte Legge. She married the earl on 1 October 1831, some years prior to his succeeding his grandfather in the earldom, when he was known as Viscount Encombe.
They had a stillborn son in 1832 before successfully parenting a further seven children:
*Lady Selina Jane Scott (died 1891), who married Nathaniel Bond and had 3 children; John Wentworth Garneys Bond, Walter de Grey Bond and Rev. Raymond Alured Bond.
*Lady Rachel Adela Scott (died 1869), who died unmarried
*Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Scott (1834-1864), who married Rev. Canon Eldon Surtees Bankes and had 5 children; Arthur Eldon Bankes, Louisa Bankes, Eustace Ralph Bankes, Herbert Stowell Bankes and Charlotte Helen Bankes.
*Lady Augusta Henrietta Scott (13 May 1836-4 November 1906), who married
Thomas Francis Fremantle, 2nd Baron Cottesloe, and had 6 children; Mary Louisa Fremantle, Col Thomas Francis Fremantle, 3rd Baron Cottesloe ; Reginald Scott Fremantle, Gertrude Charlotte Fremantle and Walter Fremantle.
*Lady Katherine Frances Scott (15 December 1837- 19 May 1903), who married
Gustavus Russell Hamilton-Russell, 8th Viscount Boyne. After her marriage she was known as Viscountess Boyne. They had 13 children.
*Lady Gertrude Louisa Scott (6 May 1841- 30 April 1919), who married Lt.-Col.
Lord Eustace Cecil
Lord Eustace Brownlow Henry (Gascoyne-)Cecil (24 April 1834 – 3 July 1921) was a British, Conservative Party politician.
Cecil was the youngest son of James Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury by his first wife Frances Gascoyne and was ed ...
and had 3 children;
Evelyn Cecil, Blanche Louisa Gascoyne-Cecil and Algernon Gascoyne-Cecil.
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John Scott, 3rd Earl of Eldon
John is a common English name and surname:
* John (given name)
* John (surname)
John may also refer to:
New Testament
Works
* Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John
* First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John
* Second E ...
(8 November 1845-10 August 1926), he married Henrietta Minna Turnor and they had 7 children.
In the period of their marriage, parts of the Eldon estate were sold off for industrial purposes, notably for the building of the
Clarence Railway
The Clarence Railway was an early railway company that operated in north-east England between 1833 and 1853. The railway was built to take coal from mines in County Durham to ports on the River Tees and was a competitor to the Stockton and Darli ...
and Little Chilton Colliery.
She died, aged 45, in London, after a short illness.
A few months later, Lord Eldon was found by a "Commission of Lunacy" to be of unsound mind.
It was said that he had suffered from partial dementia since 1851 but that his wife "had managed the property of her husband, and had also managed him with great affection and tact". He survived the countess by two years and died in September 1854, aged 48. He was succeeded in the earldom by his only son, John.
References
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1807 births
1852 deaths
British countesses
Scott family (England)
Daughters of barons