Frances Winckley, Lady Shelley

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• Christening: 7 Nov 1787, Saint John, Preston, Lancashire

Notes:

Frances Winkley, Lady Shelley (1787–1873), was a noted diarist and close friend of the Duke of Wellington. Her diaries were published by Richard Edgcumbe (Diaries of Frances Lady Shelley)

The Diary of Frances Lady Shelley 1818-1873
https://ia800202.us.archive.org/10/items/diaryoffrancesla02sheluoft/diaryoffrancesla02sheluoft.pdf

Frances married Sir John Shelley, 6th Baronet Michelgrove on 4 Jun 1807 in London. John was born on 3 Mar 1772 in Westminster, London; died on 28 Mar 1852 in Michelgrove, Sussex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1881, Stonehouse, Devon; Stone Hall, Emma Place: George (Hon.) Edgcumbe 80, Fanny Lucy (Hon.) Edgcumbe 70, butler William Cox 47, servants Anne Norman Barratt 25, Jane Roseveare 45, Mary Ann Easterbrook Harvey 35
• Residence: 1891, Stonehouse, Devon; with daughter Caroline Liddell & her husband Atholl Liddell & his brother Earl R Ravenswowrth [widower 69] & niece Lady Lilian Liddell & nurses, ladies maids etc

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Died:
Lived at Winter Villa, East Stonehouse, Devon

Fanny married Hon. George Edgcumbe on 19 May 1834 in Firenze, Toscana, Italy. George (son of Richard Edgcumbe, 2nd Earl of Mt Edgcumbe and Sophia Hobart) was born on 23 Jun 1800 in Richmond, Surrey; died on 18 Feb 1882 in Mount Edgcumbe, Cremyll, Plymouth. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1881, Chelsea, London; Age: 37; Relation to Head of House: Head; Marital Status: Married
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Sandhurst, Berkshire; Age: 67; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head

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Richard (frequently known as Dick) was born on 12th August 1843, the elder son of the Hon. George Edgcumbe of Edgbarrow Manor, Crowthorne, Berkshire and his wife, Fanny Lucy Shelley, daughter of Sir John Shelley 6th Bt. Richard was the grandson of the 2nd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe and at the age of 29 he married Mary Louisa Monck. Their only son, Kenelm William Edward (1873-1965) would later become the 6th Earl.

Richard was commissioned a Lieutenant in the 52nd Light Infantry, served with the 73rd and was later promoted Captain in the Royal Buckinghamshire Militia. He served as Serjeant-at-Arms for no less than 41 years to three successive monarchs: Queen Victoria from 1880 to 1901; Edward VII from 1901 to 1910 and George V from 1910 to 1921.

Known as ‘Grandipa’ to his grandchildren he was small in stature with a beard and a great love of Italy giving him something of an Italian appearance. A literary man himself he became a tireless campaigner for a memorial to his friend Lord Byron, writing lines titled The National Byron Memorial and subsequently penning its history in a leaflet published in 1883. Other works included his editing of his grandmother’s book The Diary of Frances, Lady Shelley, 1787-1817, Edward Trelawny, (A Biographical Sketch) and two sets of Musical Reminiscences in 1824 and 1828.

A great European traveller and a frequent visitor to Italy he died on 3rd November 1937 aged 94.

Birth:
- British subject

Died:
Age: 94

Richard married Mary Louisa Monck on 26 Nov 1872 in Reading, Berkshire. Mary (daughter of John Bligh Monck and Elizabeth Margaret Yates) was born on 14 Mar 1844 in Reading, Berkshire; died on 2 Sep 1923 in Docking, Norfolk. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Henrietta Constance Jones in 1926 in Brighton, Sussex, New Jersey, USA. Henrietta was born in Jun 1897 in Eastbourne, Sussex; died in 1969 in Hove, Sussex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edward married Constance Bevin Burrowes on 30 Jan 1868. Constance died in 1922. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1881, Chelsea, London; Relationship to Head: Son
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Aldenham, Hertfordshire; 37, married; head of household
• Residence: 1913, Ireland
• Military Service: Between 1914 and 1920
• Residence: 1926, England
• Departure: 1 Apr 1926, Southampton, Hampshire
• Arrival: 13 Apr 1926, New York, USA; Age: 52

Notes:

The barony Edgcumbe of Mount Edgcumbe in the County of Cornwall, was created in 1742. In 1781 the title became Viscount Mount Edgcumbe and Valletort and in 1789 an Earldom was created.

Kenelm William Edward Edgcumbe was a Fellow of University College, London; late Lt-Col RE (TA); JP for Herts; son of the late Richard Edgcumbe; succeeded his cousin to the title in 1944. He married in 1906 Lillian Agnes daughter of Col A C Arkwright of Hatfield Place Essex. They had three daughters and one son who was killed in action in 1940.
He was educated at Harrow (with Winston Churchill who was said to be stupid and unpopular) and studied Electrical Engineering in Germany and at University College, London. He served throughout the 1914-18 war. He was an Hon. Member and past president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers; late Hon. Secretary of the International Electrotechnical Commission; Fellow (Past President) of the Illuminating Engineering Society of Great britain; Member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers; He was M.I.C.E. and F Inst P.

He was a keen Territorial for 20 years, a DL for the County of Cornwall from 1961 until his death and awarded the Order of St john in 1964. He was succeeded by his cousin Edward Piers Edgcumbe (b 1908) elder son of late George Valletort Edgcumbe who had married in 1944 Victoria Effie Warbrick.

Died:
Age at Death: 91

Kenelm married Lilian Agnes Arkwright on 19 Jul 1906 in Braintree, Essex. Lilian (daughter of Arthur Chandos Arkwright, Lt Colonel and Agnes Mary Tufnell) was born on 19 Jan 1877 in Oswestry, Shropshire; died on 28 Sep 1964 in St. Germans, Cornwall. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: Jan 1884, Palmerston North, New Zealand
• Residence: 1943, Dee Why, Warringah, New South Wales, Australia
• Residence: 1954, Nelson, New Zealand

George married Georgina Mildred Bell in 1897 in New Zealand. Georgina was born on 9 Apr 1870 in Auckland, New Zealand; died on 27 Oct 1941 in Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand; was buried in Auckland, New Zealand. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]