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Georgiana Howard | |
|---|---|
| Countess of Burlington | |
| Born | Lady Blanche Georgiana Howard 11 January 1812 |
| Died | 27 April 1840 (aged 28) Westhill Park near Wantage, Oxfordshire |
| Spouse(s) | William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire |
| Issue | Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire Lord Frederick Cavendish Lord Edward Cavendish Lady Louisa Caroline Egerton |
| Father | George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle |
| Mother | Lady Georgiana Cavendish |
Blanche Cavendish, Countess of Burlington (née Howard; 11 January 1812 – 27 April 1840) was an English peeress.
Early life and family
[edit]Lady Blanche Georgiana Howard was born on 11 January 1812, the fourth daughter of George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle and his wife, Lady Georgiana Cavendish.[1][2]
In February 1816, Blanche's maternal aunt Harriet described the young girl in a letter to her sister, writing that Blanche is "too great a darling; she is shy in general, and I suppose it is from some likeness in voice and manner that she forgets with me that I am not you, calls me Mama, and is full of jokes and animation. How pretty she is!"[3]
Marriage and issue
[edit]On 6 August 1829, she married William Cavendish, a grandson of George Cavendish, 1st Earl of Burlington.[1][2]
They had five children:[4]
- William, Lord Cavendish (8 December 1831 – 15 May 1834)
- Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire (23 July 1833 – 24 March 1908)
- Lady Louisa Caroline Cavendish (16 March 1835 – ); married Admiral Francis Egerton in 1865
- Lord Frederick Cavendish (30 November 1836 – 6 May 1882)
- Lord Edward Cavendish (28 January 1838 – 18 May 1891)
Cavendish died on 27 April 1840, at the age of twenty-eight.[5][6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Thompson 2004.
- ^ a b Lodge 1867, p. 101.
- ^ Leveson-Gower 1894, pp. 85–86.
- ^ Lodge 1867, p. 179.
- ^ Lodge 1867, pp. 101, 179.
- ^ Hattersley 2013, p. 335.
- ^ Cannadine 1994.
- ^ Lees-Milne 1998.
Works cited
- Cannadine, David (1994). Aspects of Aristocracy: Grandeur and Decline in Modern Britain. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300059816.
- Hattersley, Roy (2013). The Devonshires: The Story of a Family and a Nation. Random House. ISBN 978-0701186241.
- Lees-Milne, James (1998). The Bachelor Duke: 6th Duke of Devonshire, 1790-1858. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0719556005.
- Leveson-Gower, Harriet (1894). Leveson-Gower, F. (ed.). Letters of Harriet, Countess Granville, 1810–1845, Volume 1. London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
- Lodge, Edmund (1867). The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire as at Present Existing. Hurst & Blackett Publishers.
- Thompson, F. M. L. (2004). "Cavendish, William, seventh duke of Devonshire (1808–1891), landowner and industrialist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/4950. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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