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As a young woman, his daughter reportedly moved in her own dissident and enlightened circle: "that strange masonic band known as 'society.'" [2] In 1775, she married the widowed Robert Stewart, Earl (1796), and later Marquess (1816), of Londonderry. Stewart was one of the principal landowners in County Down but, as a Presbyterian within Ireland ...
The title was created in 1816 for Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Londonderry.He had earlier represented County Down in the Irish House of Commons.Stewart had already been created Baron Londonderry in 1789, [3] Viscount Castlereagh, of Castlereagh in the County of Down, [4] [5] in 1795 and Earl of Londonderry, of the County of Londonderry, in 1796. [6]
Alexander Stewart 1699–1781: Baron Londonderry (2nd creation), 1789 Viscount Castlereagh, 1795 Earl of Londonderry (3rd creation), 1796 Marquess of Londonderry, 1816: Sarah Frances Seymour 1747–1770: Robert Stewart 1739–1821 1st Marquess of Londonderry, Earl of Londonderry, Viscount Castlereagh, and Baron Londonderry: Frances Pratt c ...
Frances Anne Vane, Marchioness of Londonderry (17 January 1800 – 20 January 1865) was an Anglo-Irish heiress and noblewoman. She was the daughter of Sir Henry Vane-Tempest, 2nd Baronet. She married Charles William Stewart, 1st Baron Stewart. She became a marchioness in 1822 when Charles succeeded his half-brother as 3rd Marquess of Londonderry.
After his wife's death, he married Lady Frances Stewart on 10 March 1799. Lady Frances was the eldest daughter of Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry and Frances Pratt (the daughter of the Whig politician Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden). [4] Before her death in 1810, they had four children:
Edward Charles Stewart Robert Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 8th Marquess of Londonderry, DL (18 November 1902 – 17 October 1955), styled Lord Stewart until 1915 and Viscount Castlereagh between 1915 and 1946, was a British peer and politician.
Earl of Londonderry is a title that has been created three times in the Peerage of Ireland. The first creation came in 1622 in favour of Thomas Ridgeway, 1st Baron Ridgeway , who served as Treasurer of Ireland and was involved in the colonisation of Ulster .
He was the fourth child (and second son) of Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry and his wife Frances Anne Vane, Marchioness of Londonderry. In December 1852, he was elected at a by-election as Member of Parliament (MP) for the City of Durham , but the election was overturned on petition the next year.