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Mary Howard, Duchess Of Norfolk (died 1705)
Duchess Mary is the name of: *Mary Stewart, Duchess of Richmond (1622–1685), English duchess * Mary Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (died 1705) (c. 1659–1705), British peeress * Mary Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (died 1773) (c. 1712–1773), British peeress * Mary Osborne, Duchess of Leeds (1723–1764), British duchess *Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776–1857), member of the British Royal Family *Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford (1865–1937), English pilot and ornithologist *Mary Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1895–1988), Chancellor of the University of Exeter *Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort (sportswoman) (1897–1987), Commander of the Order of St John *Mary Montagu Douglas Scott, Duchess of Buccleuch (1900–1993), British duchess *Mary Innes-Ker, Duchess of Roxburghe (1915–2014), British duchess See also * Duchess Maria (other) *Duchess Marie (other) Duchess Marie may refer to: * Marie Angélique de Scorailles (1661–1681), Du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Stewart, Duchess Of Richmond
Mary Stewart, Duchess of Richmond and Duchess of Lennox (1622–1685), formerly Lady Mary Villiers, was the daughter of the George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Katherine Villiers, Duchess of Buckingham, Katherine Manners, Baroness de Ros. On 8 January 1634, at the age of 12, she married the 15-year-old Earl of Pembroke, Charles, Lord Herbert, eldest son of the Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke, 4th Earl of Pembroke and 1st Earl of Montgomery, but was widowed in 1635 when her young husband died of smallpox or perhaps petechiae. On 3 August 1637, she married the James Stewart, 1st Duke of Richmond, 4th Duke of Lennox, who was created Duke of Richmond in 1641. They had two children: *Esmé Stewart, 2nd Duke of Richmond, Esmé Stewart, 2nd Duke of Richmond and 5th Duke of Lennox (2 November 1649 – 10 August 1660), died of smallpox. *Lady Mary Stewart (10 July 1651 – 4 July 1668), Baron Clifton, Baroness Clifton in 1660; married Richard Butler, 1st Earl of Arran. No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Howard, Duchess Of Norfolk (died 1705)
Duchess Mary is the name of: *Mary Stewart, Duchess of Richmond (1622–1685), English duchess * Mary Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (died 1705) (c. 1659–1705), British peeress * Mary Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (died 1773) (c. 1712–1773), British peeress * Mary Osborne, Duchess of Leeds (1723–1764), British duchess *Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776–1857), member of the British Royal Family *Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford (1865–1937), English pilot and ornithologist *Mary Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1895–1988), Chancellor of the University of Exeter *Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort (sportswoman) (1897–1987), Commander of the Order of St John *Mary Montagu Douglas Scott, Duchess of Buccleuch (1900–1993), British duchess *Mary Innes-Ker, Duchess of Roxburghe (1915–2014), British duchess See also * Duchess Maria (other) *Duchess Marie (other) Duchess Marie may refer to: * Marie Angélique de Scorailles (1661–1681), Du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Howard, Duchess Of Norfolk (died 1773)
Mary Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (née Mary Blount; 1712 – 1773), was a British noblewoman after whom Norfolk Island, a small island in the Pacific Ocean, was named. Early life Mary Blount was the youngest of three daughters of Edward Blount (d. 1726) of Blagdon, near Paignton in Devon, by his wife Anne Guise, a daughter of Sir John Guise, 2nd Baronet. She was a co-heiress of her father's property. Born into an exiled Roman Catholic family, she spent her adolescence and early years of marriage on the continent. On 26 November 1727, she married Edward Howard, who in 1732 succeeded as the 9th Duke of Norfolk, upon the death of his elder brother Thomas Howard, 8th Duke of Norfolk. Activities The pair were socially active, using their position as the highest-ranking peers in the kingdom to promote religious tolerance. As Roman Catholics whose immediate predecessors, the 8th Duke and his wife Maria Shireburn, had supported the Jacobite rising of 1715, Mary and Edward Howa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Osborne, Duchess Of Leeds
Mary may refer to: People * Mary (name), a female given name (includes a list of people with the name) Religion * New Testament people named Mary, overview article linking to many of those below * Mary, mother of Jesus, also called the Blessed Virgin Mary * Mary Magdalene, devoted follower of Jesus * Mary of Bethany, follower of Jesus, considered by Western medieval tradition to be the same person as Mary Magdalene * Mary, mother of James * Mary of Clopas, follower of Jesus * Mary, mother of John Mark * Mary of Egypt, patron saint of penitents * Mary of Rome, a New Testament woman * Mary the Jewess, one of the reputed founders of alchemy, referred to by Zosimus. Royalty * Mary, Countess of Blois (1200–1241), daughter of Walter of Avesnes and Margaret of Blois * Mary of Burgundy (1457–1482), daughter of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy * Queen Mary of Denmark (born 1972), wife of Frederik X of Denmark * Mary I of England (1516–1558), aka "Bloody Mary", Queen of Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princess Mary, Duchess Of Gloucester And Edinburgh
Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (25 April 1776 – 30 April 1857) was the eleventh child and fourth daughter of King George III and his consort Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. She married her first cousin, Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, when both were 40, and was his widow in later life. In her last years, her niece Queen Victoria was on the throne as the fourth monarch during Mary's life, after her father and two of her brothers, George IV and William IV of the United Kingdom, William IV. Dying aged 81 at Gloucester House, Weymouth, Dorset, Weymouth, Mary was the longest-lived and last survivor of George III's fifteen children (thirteen of whom lived to adulthood). Early life and family Princess Mary was born on 25 April 1776, at Buckingham Palace, London. Her father was the reigning British monarch, George III of the United Kingdom, George III. Her mother was Charlotte of Mecklenburg, Queen Charlotte, the daughter of Charles, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Russell, Duchess Of Bedford
Mary Du Caurroy Russell, Duchess of Bedford, (née Tribe; 26 September 1865 – ca. 22 March 1937) was a British aviator and ornithologist. She was honoured for her work in founding hospitals and working in them during the First World War. She later financed and took part in record breaking flights to Karachi and Cape Town. Early and personal life Born at Stockbridge, Hampshire, she was the daughter of Walter Harry Tribe, Anglican Archdeacon of Lahore, and his wife, Sophy Lander. On 30/31 January 1888, she married Lord Herbrand Russell at Barrackpore, British Raj. When Lord Herbrand inherited his childless brother's titles in 1893, she was styled as the Duchess of Bedford. Her only child, Hastings, was born on 21 December 1888. During the early 1900s she became one of the first Western women to study the Japanese martial art of jujutsu, and she was featured in a series of instructional photographs for the book "The Fine Art of Jujutsu" (1905), written by Emily Diana Watts. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Cavendish, Duchess Of Devonshire
Mary Alice Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, (; 29 July 1895 – 24 December 1988) was a British courtier who served as Mistress of the Robes to Queen Elizabeth II from 1953 to 1967. She was the granddaughter of Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury. Early life She was born the Honourable Mary Alice Gascoyne-Cecil in Hatfield, Hertfordshire on 29 July 1895. She was the second daughter of James Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne, and Lady Cicely Alice Gore, who served as Extra Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Alexandra. Her maternal grandparents were Arthur Gore, 5th Earl of Arran and Lady Edith Jocelyn (daughter of Robert Jocelyn, Viscount Jocelyn and sister of Robert Jocelyn, 4th Earl of Roden). Her paternal grandparents were Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury and the former Georgiana Alderson (eldest daughter of Sir Edward Hall Alderson, a Baron of the Exchequer). In 1903, her father succeeded as the Marquess of Salisbury an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Somerset, Duchess Of Beaufort (sportswoman)
Victoria Constance Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort, CStJ (formerly Lady Mary Cambridge, ''née'' Princess Mary of Teck; 12 June 1897 – 23 June 1987) was a British peeress and sportswoman. The elder daughter of the 1st Marquess of Cambridge and Lady Margaret Grosvenor, she was the niece of Queen Mary. Early life Born Princess Mary of Teck at White Lodge, Richmond Park, on 12 June 1897, she was the second child of the then Prince Adolphus of Teck and his wife, Lady Margaret Grosvenor. Her father's older sister was Princess Victoria Mary, Duchess of York, later Queen Mary. Paternally, she descended from the House of Württemberg and King George III, and maternally, she descended from the Grosvenor family. In 1917, at the height of the First World War, when King George V's German relations living in the United Kingdom dropped their foreign titles, her father was created Marquess of Cambridge, Earl of Eltham and Viscount Northallerton, thus, Princess Mary became ''Lad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Montagu Douglas Scott, Duchess Of Buccleuch
(Vreda Esther) Mary Montagu Douglas Scott, Duchess of Buccleuch and Queensberry (17 September 1900 – 9 February 1993), was the elder of the two daughters of Maj. William Frank Lascelles, the son of diplomat Frank Lascelles (23 March 1841 – 2 January 1920). She was commonly known as Molly Buccleuch. Her mother was Lady Sybil Evelyn de Vere Beauclerk, daughter of William Beauclerk, 10th Duke of St Albans, and his first wife, Sybil Mary Grey (28 November 1848 – 7 September 1871). Through her mother, Mary was descended from Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans (1670–1726), illegitimate son of King Charles II of England and his mistress Nell Gwynn. On 21 April 1921, she married Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 8th Duke of Buccleuch and 10th Duke of Queensberry; she was styled "Duchess of Buccleuch" from 19 October 1935. They had three children: * Lady Elizabeth Diana Montagu Douglas Scott (20 January 1922 – 19 September 2012) * Walter Francis John Montagu Douglas Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Innes-Ker, Duchess Of Roxburghe
Mary Evelyn Hungerford Innes-Ker, Duchess of Roxburghe (23 March 1915 – 2 July 2014), born Lady Mary Crewe-Milnes,Obituary for Mary Innes-Ker, Duchess of Roxburghe announcements.telegraph.co.uk; accessed 12 July 2014. was a British aristocrat. She was a daughter of Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe, by his marriage to Lady Peggy Crewe-Milnes, Peggy Primrose, one of the first seven women appointed as magistrates in 1919 following the passing of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919. Her maternal grandparents were Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery, Hannah de Rothschild and Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery. Marriage and divorce A goddaughter of Mary of Teck, Queen Mary, she was the first wife of George Innes-Ker, 9th D ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duchess Maria (other)
Duchess Maria may refer to: * Duchess Maria Christina of Teschen (1742–1798), Archduchess of Austria * Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg (1797–1855), daughter of Duke Louis of Württemberg and Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg * Duchess Maria Josepha of Bavaria (1857–1943), Infanta of Portugal * Duchess Maria Nikolaievna of Leuchtenberg (1819–1876), President of the Imperial Academy of Arts * Duchess Maria of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1736–1807), member of the British Royal Family * Duchess Maria Sophie of Bavaria (1841–1925), last Queen consort of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies See also * Archduchess Maria (other) * Duchess Marie (other) Duchess Marie may refer to: * Marie Angélique de Scorailles (1661–1681), Duchess of Fontages * Princess Marie of Baden (1865-1939), Marie, Duchess of Anhalt * Duchess Marie d'Orleans-Longueville de Nemours (1625–1707), daughter of Henry II of ... * Duchess Mary (other) * Grand Duchess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
