Charlotte FitzGerald-de Ros, 21st Baroness de Ros
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Charlotte Fitzgerald-de Ros (1769-1831) was born Charlotte Boyle Walsingham in Castlemartyr, Cork, Ireland. She spent most of her childhood with her parents at the Boyle Farm mansion in Thames Ditton. (Her mother, the second daughter of Frances Coningsby, had bought this estate in 1784 from Lord Hertford, who was grieving over the death of his wife there two years earlier.) Charlotte did much artistic decoration in Boyle Farm and much of it has survived to the present day.
On 3rd August 1791, more than a year after her mother's death, Charlotte married into the Duke of Leinster's family. Her husband was Lord Henry FitzGerald. After petitioning King George III in 1790, she eventually (in 1806) established her entitlement to the Barony of de Ros, the most ancient baronial title in England. Members of the de Ros family lived in Thames Ditton for a long while. They had links with the brightest of society, from the Duke of Wellington downwards. Henry's younger brother was the notorious Lord Edward FitzGerald. Charlotte died on the 9th January, 1831.
[edit] References
- Philip J Burchett (1984). A Historical Sketch of THAMES DITTON. Surrey: Thames Ditton and Weston Green Residents' Association. ISBN 0-904-81120-4.
- Boyle Family History
- Dittopedia, the collaborative local history of Thames Ditton
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