Maud Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne
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The Marchioness of Lansdowne | |
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Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Alexandra | |
In office 1905–1910 | |
Vicereine of India | |
In office 10 December 1888 – 11 October 1894 | |
Preceded by | The Countess of Dufferin |
Succeeded by | The Countess of Elgin |
Viceregal consort of Canada | |
In office 23 October 1883 – 11 June 1888 | |
Preceded by | The Princess Louise |
Succeeded by | The Countess of Derby |
Personal details | |
Born | Lady Maud Evelyn Hamilton 17 December 1850 St George Hanover Square, London, England |
Died | 21 October 1932 St George Hanover Square, London, England | (aged 81)
Spouse | |
Children | Evelyn Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 6th Marquess of Lansdowne Lord Charles Petty-Fitzmaurice Beatrix Beauclerk, Duchess of St Albans |
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Maud Evelyn Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne VA CI GBE CH GCStJ (née Hamilton; 17 December 1850 – 21 October 1932), was a British courtier. She served as vice-regal consort while her husband Henry Charles Keith Petty-FitzMaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne was Governor General of Canada from 1883 to 1888. She was then Vicereine of India from 1888 to 1894 while her husband was Viceroy.
Marriage
Lady Lansdowne was a daughter of James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn, and Lady Louisa Jane Russell. On 8 November 1869, she married Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, at Westminster Abbey and they had four children:
- Lady Evelyn Emily Mary Fitzmaurice (27 August 1870 – 2 April 1960)
- Henry William Edmund Petty-Fitzmaurice, Earl of Kerry (14 January 1872 – 5 March 1936)
- Lord Charles George Francis Fitzmaurice (12 February 1874 – 30 October 1914)
- Lady Beatrix Frances Fitzmaurice (25 March 1877 – 5 August 1953)
Later years
From 1905 to 1909 she was a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Alexandra; she was Extra Lady from 1910 to 1925. During the First World War she set up the Officers' Families Fund and served as its president, and she and her husband lent their house, Lansdowne House in Berkeley Square, London, to serve as its headquarters. She had previously done the same in the Second Boer War.[1] She also set up an auxiliary Red Cross hospital in the Orangery at Bowood House on their Wiltshire estate.[2]
For this and other charitable services, she was appointed Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in the 1920 civilian war honours. [3]
Death
She died in 1932, aged 81, and was buried (as her husband had been, five years earlier) at Derry Hill church, at the gates of their Bowood estate.[4]
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References
- ^ "Officers' Families' Fund". The Times. 16 January 1900. p. 5.
- ^ "Bowood home front exhibition marking First World War centenary". This is Wiltshire.
- ^ "No. 31840". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 March 1920. p. 3757.
- ^ Historic England. "Christ Church (1253593)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
- Obituary, The Times, 22 October 1932.
- 1850 births
- 1932 deaths
- British marchionesses
- Members of the Order of the Companions of Honour
- Companions of the Order of the Crown of India
- Dames Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
- Dames Grand Cross of the Order of St John
- Ladies of the Royal Order of Victoria and Albert
- Canadian viceregal consorts
- Daughters of British dukes
- Ladies of the Bedchamber
- Petty-Fitzmaurice family
- British women in World War I
- Viceregal consorts of India
- Wives of knights