Arabella Stewart, Countess of Galloway (26 April 1850 – 18 August 1903), formerly Lady Mary Arabella Arthur Cecil, was the wife of

Alan Stewart, 10th Earl of Galloway Alan Plantagenet Stewart, 10th Earl of Galloway, KT, DL, JP (21 October 1835 – 7 February 1901), styled Lord Garlies until 1873, was a British peer and politician. Background Galloway was the eldest son of Randolph Stewart, 9th Earl of G ...

. She was the daughter of

James Brownlow William Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury James Brownlow William Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury, (17 April 1791 – 12 April 1868), styled Viscount Cranborne until 1823, was a British Conservative politician. He held office under The Earl of Derby as Lord Privy Seal in 18 ...

, and his second wife, the former Lady Mary Catherine Sackville-West. Her older half-brother,

Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (; 3 February 183022 August 1903) was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom three times for a total of over thirteen y ...

, was prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1886 to 1892 and again from 1895 to 1902. She married the future earl on 25 January 1872, a year before he succeeded to his father's titles. As Lord Garlies, he was Conservative MP for

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, thus representing the same party as his brother-in-law. There were no children from their marriage. The earl died in 1901, aged 65, and was succeeded in the earldom by his brother

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. A portrait photograph of the countess, taken during the 1870s by John Watkins, is held by London's

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. The dowager countess had a London house at 17

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, but died at "Cuffnells",

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, of

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, aged 53.

Ancestry

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Galloway, Arabella Stewart, Countess of 1850 births 1903 deaths Peerage of Scotland Scottish countesses Daughters of British marquesses