Elizabeth Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort (''née'' Berkeley; 9 April 1799) was an English Duchess.
Biography
Somerset was born in
Stoke Gifford
Stoke Gifford is a neighbourhood and Civil parish, parish and Wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom, electoral ward in the South Gloucestershire district, in the ceremonial county of Gloucestershire, England. Formerly a separate ...
in Gloucestershire to John Symes Berkeley and Elizabeth Norborne.
[G. E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 54–55] Her younger brother was
Norborne, Lord Botetourt.
On 1 May 1740 she married
Charles Noel Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort, younger son of
Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort and his second wife Rachel Noel. They had six children:
# Lady Anne Somerset (11 March 1741 – 18 May 1763, aged 22), married
Charles Compton, 7th Earl of Northampton on 13 September 1759 and had issue
# Lady Elizabeth Somerset (12 March 1742 – 7 May 1760, aged 18)
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Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort
Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort (16 October 1744 – 11 October 1803) was an English courtier and politician. He was styled the Marquess of Worcester from 1745 until 1756, when he succeeded his father as 5th Duke of Beaufort (England), ...
(16 October 1744 – 11 October 1803, aged 58)
# Lady Rachel Somerset (August 1746 – May 1747) (died an infant)
# Lady Henrietta Somerset (26 April 1748 – 24 July 1770, aged 22), married
Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet
Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet (23 September 1749 – 24 July 1789) was a Welsh landowner, politician and patron of the arts. The Williams-Wynn baronets had been begun in 1688 by the politician Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, but ha ...
on 6 April 1769, no issue.
#
Lady Mary Isabella Somerset (1 August 1756 – 2 September 1831, aged 75), married
Charles Manners, 4th Duke of Rutland
Charles Manners, 4th Duke of Rutland (15 March 175424 October 1787) was a British politician and nobleman, the eldest legitimate son of John Manners, Marquess of Granby. He was styled Lord Roos from 1760 until 1770, and Marquess of Granby from ...
on 26 December 1775 and had six children.
A stone monument to the memory of her daughter Lady Elizabeth Somerset is located in
Stoke Park, Bristol. It is engraved with the Latin inscription:
ELIZABETHA SOMERSET
CAROLI DUCIS BEAUFORT FILIA SECUNDA HIC OBIIT VII
MAII MDCCLX
RESTITUTUM ANNO MMIV
This translates as 'Elizabeth Somerset, second daughter of Charles Duke of Beaufort, died here 7 May 1760. Restored in the year 2004'. She was killed when her horse shied.
References
1799 deaths
18th-century English nobility
Elizabeth
English duchesses by marriage
Elizabeth
Year of birth unknown
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