William Courtenay, 8th Earl

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of Devon (30 October 1742 – 14 October 1788) was the eldest son of

William Courtenay William Courtenay ( 134231 July 1396) was Archbishop of Canterbury (1381–1396), having previously been Bishop of Hereford and Bishop of London. Early life and education Courtenay was a younger son of Hugh de Courtenay, 10th Earl of Devon ( ...

7th

Earl of Devon Earl of Devon was created several times in the English peerage, and was possessed first (after the Norman Conquest of 1066) by the de Redvers (''alias'' de Reviers, Revieres, etc.) family, and later by the Courtenay family. It is not to be co ...

, and Lady Frances Finch. He succeeded to the title of 4th Baronet Courtenay, 2nd Viscount Courtenay of

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and 8th Earl of Devon (Created c.1553) on 16 May 1762 upon the death of his father.

Family

He married Lady Frances Clack (d. 25 March 1782) on (7 May 1762) with whom he had the following children. # Frances Courtenay (b. January 1763) married

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on 13 June 1788. # Charlotte Courtenay (b. 14 February 1764) married Thomas Giffard. # Isabella Courtenay (20 June 1765 – 5 March 1783) died when her clothes caught fire # Elizabeth Courtenay (2 September 1766 – 11 September 1815) married

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in June 1788. #

William Courtenay, 9th Earl of Devon William "Kitty" Courtenay, 9th Earl of Devon (c. 1768 – 26 May 1835), was the only son of William Courtenay, ''de jure'' 8th Earl of Devon, 2nd Viscount Courtenay and his wife Frances Clack. He attracted infamy for a homosexual affair wit ...

(30 July 1768 – 26 May 1835) # Lucy Courtenay (13 June 1770 – 27 January 1822) married

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on 2 August 1798. # Harriet Courtenay (7 September 1771 – 14 April 1826) married

George Thynne, 2nd Baron Carteret George Thynne, 2nd Baron Carteret PC (23 January 1770 – 19 February 1838), styled Lord George Thynne between 1789 and 1826, was a British Tory politician. Background and education Carteret was the second son of Thomas Thynne, 1st Marquess of ...

on 9 May 1797. # Anne Courtenay (2 July 1774 – 6 January 1835) married George Annesley, 2nd Earl of Mountnorris on 3 September 1790. # Caroline-Eustatia Courtenay (b. 26 March 1775) married Colonel Charles Morland on 14 June 1812. # Matilda-Jane Courtenay (b. 6 July 1778) married John Lock. # Sophia Courtenay (b. 25 January 1780) married Lieutenant-Colonel Nathaniel Foy in December 1804. # Louisa Augusta Courtenay (d. 8 February 1825) married

Lord Edward Somerset General Lord Robert Edward Henry Somerset (19 December 17761 September 1842) was a British soldier who fought during the Peninsular War and the War of the Seventh Coalition. Life Somerset was the third son of Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beauf ...

on 17 October 1805. And one illegitimate child. The mother of this child is unknown, all that is known is the child had the surname "Vane" and she was "akin" to Sir Henry Vane the Younger who died of beheading in 1662 over one hundred years earlier]. # Mary Ann Vane (26 February 1784 – c. 1848–1852) married Louis Chevalier, Seigneur du Saint-Paul of

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in approximately 1799. They had three children, Mary Sophia Chevalier, Philip David Chevalier and Mary Anne Chevalier. 1742 births 1788 deaths Earls of Devon (1553 creation) {{UK-earl-stub