Teresa Mary Nugent Freeman-Grenville, 13th Lady Kinloss (born 20 July 1957) is a
Scottish peer.
She is the
heir-general
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of
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 older 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 ...
(sister of
Lady Jane Grey
Lady Jane Grey ( 1537 – 12 February 1554), later known as Lady Jane Dudley (after her marriage) and as the "Nine Days' Queen", was an English noblewoman who claimed the throne of England and Ireland from 10 July until 19 July 1553.
Jane was ...
, briefly Queen of England after the death of
King Edward VI
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), and has thus been suggested as a
claimant to the throne of England.
[
]
Life
Born at Tanga, Tanzania
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, she is the elder of the two daughters of Mary Freeman-Grenville, 12th Lady Kinloss, by her marriage to Dr Greville Stewart Parker Freeman, later Freeman-Grenville. She is a great-great-granddaughter of (1823–1889), who was also Lord Kinloss.
Upon his death, some of his titles became extinct, while others passed to cousins, and only this lordship of Kinloss was inherited by his eldest daughter, Mary
Mary may refer to:
People
* Mary (name), a feminine given name (includes a list of people with the name)
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* New Testament people named Mary, overview article linking to many of those below
* Mary, mother of Jesus, also calle ...
. Her great-granddaughter the present Lady Kinloss is thus the senior heir-general of 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 ...
, sister of Lady Jane Grey
Lady Jane Grey ( 1537 – 12 February 1554), later known as Lady Jane Dudley (after her marriage) and as the "Nine Days' Queen", was an English noblewoman who claimed the throne of England and Ireland from 10 July until 19 July 1553.
Jane was ...
. In an alternative succession to the throne of England, based on the Will of King Henry VIII
Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547. Henry is best known for his six marriages, and for his efforts to have his first marriage (to Catherine of Aragon) annulled. His disag ...
, Lady Kinloss inherits her mother's claim (never pursued) to the crown.[Lady Kinloss]
(obituary) in ''The Daily Telegraph
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It was fo ...
'' October 2012, online at telegraph.co.uk, accessed 6 July 2014
She was educated at Rye St Antony School (Headington, Oxford
Headington is an eastern suburb of Oxford, England. It is at the top of Headington Hill overlooking the city in the Thames valley below, and bordering Marston to the north-west, Cowley to the south, and Barton and Risinghurst to the east. Th ...
), then at York Art School, where she studied fashion. On 30 September 2012 she succeeded to the lordship of Kinloss on the death of her mother, which happened less than a year after the death of her brother, Bevil David Stewart Chandos Freeman-Grenville, Master of Kinloss (1953–2012).['KINLOSS, Lady (13th in line, of the Lordship cr 1602) Teresa Mary Nugent Freeman-Grenville' in ''Who's Who 2014'' (London: A. & C. Black, online edition by Oxford University Press, 2013 ]
online edition
December 2013, accessed 4 July 2014 (subscription site)
Lady Kinloss lives at North View House, Sheriff Hutton
Sheriff Hutton is a village and civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England. It lies about north by north-east of York.
History
The village is mentioned twice in the Domesday Book of 1086, as ''Hotun'' in the Bulford hund ...
, North Yorkshire
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, and has worked for National Milk Records since 1992. In ''Who's Who
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'' she states her recreations as dogs, keeping goats, and spinning and weaving.[
The ]heir presumptive
An heir presumptive is the person entitled to inherit a throne, peerage, or other hereditary honour, but whose position can be displaced by the birth of an heir apparent or a new heir presumptive with a better claim to the position in question.
...
to the title is Lady Kinloss's younger sister, Hon. Hester Josephine Anne Haworth (born 1960), who married Peter Haworth in 1984 and has three sons.[Alan Freer, William the Conqueror database]
p. 41
accessed 5 July 2014
See also
*Alternative successions of the English crown
British history provides several opportunities for alternative claimants to the English and later British Crown to arise, and historical scholars have on occasion traced to present times the heirs of those alternative claims.
Throughout this arti ...
References
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1957 births
Teresa
Teresa (also Theresa, Therese; french: Thérèse) is a feminine given name.
It originates in the Iberian Peninsula in late antiquity. Its derivation is uncertain, it may be derived from Greek θερίζω (''therízō'') "to harvest or re ...
Hereditary women peers
Teresa
Teresa (also Theresa, Therese; french: Thérèse) is a feminine given name.
It originates in the Iberian Peninsula in late antiquity. Its derivation is uncertain, it may be derived from Greek θερίζω (''therízō'') "to harvest or re ...
People educated at Rye St Antony School
Living people