Anne Elizabeth Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, Duchess of Buckingham and Chandos, Lady Kinloss (née Brydges, 27 October 1779 – 15 May 1836), styled Countess Temple from 1796 to 1813 and The Marchioness of Buckingham from 1813 to 1822, was an English peeress.
Life
Anna Eliza Brydges was born in 1779 as the only child of
James Brydges, 3rd Duke of Chandos
James Brydges, 3rd Duke of Chandos, PC (27 December 1731 – 29 September 1789), styled Viscount Wilton from 1731 to 1744 and Marquess of Carnarvon from 1744 to 1771, was an English politician.
Background
Chandos was the only son of H ...
and
Anne Eliza Elletson (nee Gamon).
By the time she was six, her parents had agreed that they planned to marry her to the boy who would be the
1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. This could have been a classic arranged marriage, but the betrothed were in contact by age 14, and they were keen to become partners.
Her mother's first husband had been
Roger Hope Elletson (1723-1775), Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica,
[, UCL Department of History 2020.] who had left her mother the
Hope Plantation in
Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica
Saint Andrew () is a Parishes of Jamaica, parish, situated in the Ordinal directions, southeast of Jamaica in the county of Surrey County, Jamaica, Surrey. It lies north, west and east of Kingston, Jamaica, Kingston, and stretches into the Blu ...
. They married in 1775, and he died the same year, leaving her as an absentee manager.
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After her second marriage, she continued to be an enthusiastic manager of the land and hundreds of slaves that she inherited in ]Jamaica
Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At , it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the is ...
. However, she was declared a lunatic in 1791.
Anna Eliza married in 1796. He proved to be a spendthrift, and before she realised he had already disposed of some of her land, despite this being in contravention of her marriage settlement
A marriage settlement in England and Wales was a historical arrangement whereby, most commonly and in its simplest form, a trust of land or other assets was established jointly by the parents of a bride and bridegroom. The trustees were establish ...
. She rearranged their finances, and she is credited with saving the family from bankruptcy. Although her husband failed to lose all their money, her son, Richard
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic language">Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'st ...
took after his father and managed to bring the family to bankruptcy in 1847.[
Anne Elizabeth Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, Duchess of Buckingham, died in ]Stowe, Buckinghamshire
Stowe is a civil parish and former village about northwest of Buckingham in the unitary authority area of Buckinghamshire, England. The parish includes the hamlets of Boycott, Dadford and Lamport.
Stowe House is a Grade I listed country hous ...
in 1836, aged 56 or 57.
References
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1779 births
1836 deaths
English slave owners
Anne
Anne, alternatively spelled Ann, is a form of the Latin female name Anna (name), Anna. This in turn is a representation of the Hebrew Hannah (given name), Hannah, which means 'favour' or 'grace'. Related names include Annie (given name), Annie a ...
British duchesses by marriage
Daughters of British dukes
Anne
Anne, alternatively spelled Ann, is a form of the Latin female name Anna (name), Anna. This in turn is a representation of the Hebrew Hannah (given name), Hannah, which means 'favour' or 'grace'. Related names include Annie (given name), Annie a ...
Women slave owners
Jamaican planters
Planters from the British West Indies