Eliza Courtney

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Eliza Courtney (1791/92 - 2 May 1859), was Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire's daughter by Charles, 2nd Earl Grey.

Her mother with an elder sibling
Her mother with an elder sibling
Her father
Her father


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[edit] Husband

In Scarborough 10 December 1814 she married Lt. Colonel Robert Ellice (1784-18 June 1856, Sydenham). Robert Ellice was promoted Ensign on 8 November 1798; Captain on 4 May 1801; Major, 12 May 1808; Lt. Colonel 16 March 1809; Colonel on 12 August 1819; Major-General on 22 July 1830; Lieutenant-General on 23 November 1841; Colonel of the 24th Regiment of Foot (the 2nd Warwickshire) on 2 November 1842; and General on 20 June 1854. At some point he served in South America and 'was present at the capture of Buenos Ayres' (1854 spelling). Ellice was acting Governor-General of Malta for five and a half months, 13 May to 27 October 1851. In the 1856 Webster's he was listed as having a residence at 57 Park Street, Mayfair. He was a younger son of the Scots born Alexander Ellice (1743-1805) of Montreal, Bath and London, a partner in the Schenectady, New York, firm of Phyn, Ellice & Co. One brother was the MP and trader Rt. hon. Edward Ellice (c1783-1863), of Glenquoich, and 18 Arlington street. Edward Bear Ellice had married in 1809 Eliza's aunt / sister (they had been brought up as sisters), Lady Hannah Althea Grey (d. 1832), daughter of Charles, 1st Earl Grey.

[edit] Children

One daughter, Georgiana, (d. 12 October 1907), married, 4 November 1846, Hugh Horatio (15 May 1821 - 4 December 1892) son of Lt. Colonel Hugh Henry Seymour (1790-?) by his wife Charlotte, daughter of the 1st Marquess of Cholmondeley. (Lt. Col. Hugh Seymour was son of Admiral Hugh Seymour (1759-1801), who was fifth son of the first Marquess of Hertford). The British Minister in Tehran, 1936-1939, and British Ambassador to China, 1942-1946, Sir Horace James Seymour, G.C.M.G., C.V.O., (1885-1978), was their grandson. One of Sir Horace's grandson's, James Seymour (1956- ), is married to Anya Hindmarch (1968-).

Another daughter, Eliza (1818-8 March 1899, Pelham house, Lewes) married Henry Bouverie William Brand (1814-1892) in 1838. After a distinguished Speakership of the House of Commons he was created Viscount Hampden; later still he inherited from his brother the Barony of Dacre, as 23rd in line. Descendants (described in Wikipedia) include the present (2008) Lord Monk Bretton; Sarah, Duchess of York; and the late Viscount Hampden.

One son Lt.-General Sir Charles Henry Ellice, KCB (Florence, 1823-1888) followed his father into the 24th Regiment of Foot and was sometime quarter-master general and then adjutant-general. He married Louisa Caroline, a daughter of William Henry Lambton and a niece of the 1st Earl of Durham. Thom's Upper Ten Thousand for 1876 lists him as of Horningsheath, Bury St Edmunds. He was subject of Vanity Fair treatment, 20 October 1877.


She died, a widow, in Norwood, Surrey, aged 67.

'Norwood in Surrey' in this case is either Upper Norwood; South Norwood; West Norwood; or Sydenham.

[edit] Biography

  • Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman (1998) ISBN 0-00-655016-9
  • Brian Masters, Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire, Hamish Hamilton, 1981.
  • The Earl of Bessborough (editor), Georgiana, John Murray, London, 1955.
  • Anthony Brand, Henry and Eliza, printed privately in Haywards Heath, 1980 (197 pages, paperback). Letters between her daughter and son-in-law.
  • Peter Townend (ed), Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 105th edition, London 1970 (1978, 3rd impression).

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[edit] Other

  • Phyn, Ellice and Company of Schenectady, by R. H. Fleming in Contributions to Canadian Economics, Vol. 4, 1932 (1932), pp. 7-41.
  • The New Annual Army List and Militia List for 1854, the 17th annual volume, by Major Henry G. Hart, John Murray, Albermarle street, London, 1854.
  • Webster's Royal Red Book; or Court and Fashionable Register, for January, 1856, Webster & Co., 60 Piccadilly, London.
  • The Upper Ten Thousand, for 1876, A biographical handbook of all the titled and official classes of the Kingdom with their addresses, compiled and edited by Adam Bisset Thom, Kelly & Co., London. (First published 1875).

[edit] Ancestors


[edit] Some Ancestors

Some of Eliza's ancestors
Eliza Courtney (Mrs Robert Ellice) (1792-1859) Father:
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (1764-1845).		 Paternal Grandfather:
Sir Charles Grey, 1st Earl Grey, KB. (d.1807)		 Paternal Great-Grandfather:
Sir Henry Grey, 1st Bt. of Howick (d.1749).
Paternal Great-grandmother:
Hannah, daughter of Thomas Wood of Falloden, Northumberland.
Paternal Grandmother:
Elizabeth Grey (d.1822)		 Paternal Great-Grandfather:
George Grey of Southwick.
Paternal Great-Grandmother:
Mrs. Grey
Mother:
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (1757-1806).		 Maternal Grandfather:
1st Earl Spencer (d.1783).		 Maternal Great-Grandfather:
Hon. John Spencer, son of 3rd Earl of Sunderland.
Maternal Great-Grandmother:
Georgiana Carteret, daughter of 2nd Earl Granville.
Maternal Grandmother:
(Margaret) Georgina Poyntz (d.1814). Her brother William Poyntz (1734-1809) married in 1762, Isabella (d.1805), daughter and co-heiress of Kelland Courtney of Painsford, Ashprington, Devon, and Trethurfe, Cornwall. (Distant scion of family of John Courtenay (of Tremere) (Tremeer)). Isabella Courtney's only brother died in 1761, thus at some point William Poyntz and the Earl of Cork & Orrery became representatives of the family of Courtney of Trethurfe and Courtney of Tremeer.		 Maternal Great-grandfather:
Rt. Hon. Stephen Poyntz (1685-1750), of Midgham, Berkshire. Ambassador. Son of William Poyntz, upholsterer.
Maternal Great-Grandmother:
Anna (d. 1771), daughter of Brigadier-general hon. Lewis Mordaunt, and maid of honour to Queen Caroline.