Caroline Louisa Cavendish-Bentinck (née Burnaby; baptised 5 December 18326 July 1918) was the maternal grandmother of
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 to 6 February 1952 as the wife of King George VI. She was th ...
, 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 durin ...
, and great-great-grandmother of
King Charles III.
Early life
Caroline Louisa Burnaby was born at
Baggrave Hall
Baggrave Hall is an 18th-century Grade II* listed country house in the parish of Hungarton, Leicestershire, England. It is a two and three-storey building in Palladian style, constructed in ashlar in the 1750s, with a Swithland slate hipped roof ...
, 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
Hungarton (or Hungerton) is a small village and civil parish in the Harborough district, in the county of Leicestershire, England, about north-east of Leicester and south-west of Melton Mowbray. The population of the civil parish was 269 at ...
, Leicestershire. She was a sister of
Edwyn Burnaby, a first cousin of
Frederick Gustavus Burnaby, and an aunt of
Algernon Burnaby
Algernon Edwyn Burnaby (9 April 1868 – 13 November 1938) of Baggrave Hall, Leicestershire, was an English landowner, soldier, and Justice of the Peace, and a cousin of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. He was Master of the Quorn Hunt.
Ear ...
.
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
William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, (14 April 173830 October 1809) was a British Whig and then a Tory politician during the late Georgian era. He served as Chancellor of the University of Oxford (1792–1809) ...
,
Prime Minister
A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is ...
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
Ham is a suburban district in Richmond, south-west London. It has meadows adjoining the River Thames where the Thames Path National Trail also runs. Most of Ham is in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and, chiefly, within the ward of ...
, and was buried in St Andrew's Church, Ham
St Andrew's Church, Ham, is a Grade II listed Church of England church on Church Road, Ham Common in Ham in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.
Architecture
The church was built in grey brick in 1830–31; the architect was Edward Lap ...
.[''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
Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 to 6 February 1952 as the wife of King George VI. She was th ...
and thus the great-grandmother of Queen 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 ...
.
Ancestors
References
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Louisa
People from Leicester
1832 births
Year of birth uncertain
1918 deaths