Arabella Stewart, Countess of Galloway (26 April 1850 – 18 August 1903), formerly Lady Mary Arabella Arthur Cecil, was the wife of

Alan Stewart, 10th Earl of Galloway Alan Plantagenet Stewart, 10th Earl of Galloway, Order of the Thistle, KT, Deputy Lieutenant, DL, Justice of the Peace, JP (21 October 1835 – 7 February 1901), styled Lord Garlies until 1873, was a British peer and politician. Background Gal ...

. She was the daughter of

James Brownlow William Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury James Brownlow William Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury, (born James Brownlow William Cecil, 17 April 1791 – 12 April 1868), styled Viscount Cranborne from birth until 1823, was a British Conservative politician. He held office unde ...

, and his second wife, the former Lady Mary Catherine Sackville-West. Her older half-brother,

Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (; 3 February 183022 August 1903), known as Lord Salisbury, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom three times for a ...

, was prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1886 to 1892 and again from 1895 to 1902. She married the future earl on 25 January 1872, a year before he succeeded to his father's titles. As Lord Garlies, he was Conservative MP for

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, thus representing the same party as his brother-in-law. There were no children from their marriage. The earl died in 1901, aged 65, and was succeeded in the earldom by his brother

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. A portrait photograph of the countess, taken during the 1870s by John Watkins, is held by London's

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. The dowager countess had a London house at 17

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, but died at "Cuffnells",

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, of

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, aged 53.

Ancestry

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