Beatrice Mary Grenville Freeman-Grenville, 12th Lady Kinloss (18 August 1922 – 30 September 2012) was a

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. The eldest of the three daughters of Luis Chandos Francis Temple Morgan-Grenville and Katherine Beatrice MacKenzie Jackman, she was educated at Ravenscroft School Eastbourne. She was the senior

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Edward Seymour, Viscount Beauchamp Edward Seymour, Lord Beauchamp of Hache (21 September 1561 – 21 July 1612) was an English nobleman who had a theoretically strong claim to the throne of England through his mother, Lady Katherine Grey, but his legitimacy was questioned. He was ...

, the only son of

Lady Catherine Grey Katherine Seymour, Countess of Hertford (formerly Katherine Herbert, Lady Herbert, born Lady Katherine Grey; 25 August 1540 – 27 January 1568), was a younger sister of Lady Jane Grey. A granddaughter of Henry VIII's sister Mary, she emerged ...

. She succeeded to the title Lady Kinloss on the death in 1944 of her grandmother,

Mary Morgan-Grenville, 11th Lady Kinloss Mary Elizabeth Morgan-Grenville, 11th Lady Kinloss (''née'' Lady Mary Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville; 30 September 1852 – 17 October 1944) was a British peeress. Biography The eldest of the three daughters of Richard Temple-Nug ...

. She married Dr Greville Stewart Parker Freeman (later Freeman-Grenville) in 1950; they had one son and two daughters: * The Hon. Bevil David Stewart Chandos Freeman-Grenville, Master of Kinloss (1953–2012); presumably named for his ancestor

Bevil Grenville Sir Bevil Grenville (23 March 1596 - 5 July 1643) was an English landowner and soldier who sat as a Member of Parliament for various constituencies between 1620 to 1642, although during those years there were few parliamentary sessions. When t ...

* Teresa Mary Nugent Freeman-Grenville, 13th Lady Kinloss (born 1957) * The Hon. Hester Josephine Anne Freeman-Grenville (born 1960), married Peter Haworth in 1984 and has three sons. She sat as an independent

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peer in the

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from the implementation of the

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, which allowed women peers in their own right to sit in the House, until the implementation of the

House of Lords Act 1999 The House of Lords Act 1999 (c. 34) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed the House of Lords, one of the chambers of Parliament. The Act was given Royal Assent on 11 November 1999. For centuries, the House of Lords ...

, which removed all but 92

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s. She served on the House of Lords Committee on European Communities from 1990 to 1992. She was unsuccessful in her bid to be elected as one of the retained 92 hereditary peers, coming 38th in a field of 79 candidates for 28 seats reserved for Crossbenchers.House of Lords Act: Hereditary Peers Elections
retrieved 6 December 2011. The 12th Lady Kinloss died on 30 September 2012. She was succeeded by her daughter,

Teresa Freeman-Grenville, 13th Lady Kinloss Teresa Mary Nugent Freeman-Grenville, 13th Lady Kinloss (born 20 July 1957) is a Scottish peer. She is the heir-general of Edward Seymour, Viscount Beauchamp, the older son of Lady Catherine Grey (sister of Lady Jane Grey, briefly Queen of E ...

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Ms Beatrice Freeman-Grenville
Hansard 1803–2005; retrieved 6 December 2011. {{DEFAULTSORT:Kinloss, Mary Freeman-Grenville, 12th Lady 1922 births 2012 deaths

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Hereditary women peers

Place of birth missing Female heirs apparent Hereditary peers removed under the House of Lords Act 1999