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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]
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:
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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.
Robert was born on 27 September 1739, at Mount Stewart, [1] the eldest son of Alexander Stewart and his wife Mary Cowan. His father was an alderman of Derry in 1760, and his grandfather, Colonel William Stewart, had commanded one of the two companies of Protestant soldiers that Derry admitted into its walls when Mountjoy was sent there by Tyrconnell before the start of the siege. [2]
Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry; Frederick Stewart, 4th Marquess of Londonderry; George Vane-Tempest, 5th Marquess of Londonderry; Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 6th Marquess of Londonderry; Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry; Robin Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 8th Marquess of Londonderry; Alistair Vane-Tempest-Stewart ...
Edith Helen Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Marchioness of Londonderry, DBE (née Chaplin; 3 December 1878 – 23 April 1959) was a noted and influential society hostess in the United Kingdom between World War I and World War II, a friend of the first Labour prime minister, Ramsay MacDonald. She was a noted gardener and a writer and editor of the works ...