Isabella Cecil, Marchioness of Exeter (6 March 1803 – 6 March 1879), formerly Isabella Poyntz, was the wife of
Brownlow Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Exeter, and the mother of the
3rd Marquess.
Biography
She was the daughter of
William Stephen Poyntz, a Liberal MP, and his wife, the former Hon. Elizabeth Mary Browne. Isabella's sister, Elizabeth Georgina Poyntz, married
Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer. Another sister, Frances Selina Isabella Poyntz, married
Robert Cotton St. John Trefusis, 18th Baron Clinton, and, on his death, married Sir
Horace Seymour, MP. Two of their brothers were drowned in an accident in a boating accident in 1815.
The Poyntz family had homes at
Midgham House in Berkshire and
Cowdray Park in West Sussex.
Children
Isabella married the Marquess of Exeter in London on 12 May 1824. Their children were:
* Lady Mary Frances Cecil (died 1917), who married
Dudley Francis Stuart Ryder, 3rd Earl of Harrowby, and had no children
*
William Alleyne Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter (1825-1895)
* Colonel Lord Brownlow Thomas Montagu Cecil (1827-1905)
* Commander Lord Edward Cecil (1834-1862)
* Lord Adelbert Percy Cecil (1841–1889), who was a member of the
Plymouth Brethren
The Plymouth Brethren or Assemblies of Brethren are a low church and Nonconformist (Protestantism), Nonconformist Christian movement whose history can be traced back to Dublin, Ireland, in the mid to late 1820s, where it originated from Anglica ...
and died, unmarried, in Canada
* Lady Victoria Cecil (1843-1932), who married
William Charles Evans-Freke, 8th Baron Carbery, and had children
The 2nd Marquess died in 1867 and his estates passed to the oldest son William. Isabella moved to 32
Upper Brook Street, Mayfair, where she died in 1879, aged 76:
she was buried with her husband in the Cecil family chapel at
St Martin's Church, Stamford
St Martin's Church, Stamford, is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England located in Stamford, Lincolnshire, Stamford, Lincolnshire, England. The area of the town south of the River Welland was in Northamptonshire until 1889 and i ...
.
References
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1803 births
1879 deaths
British marchionesses