Maud Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne

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Maud Evelyn Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne, GBE, CH, VA, CI (17 December 1850–21 October 1932), née Lady Maud Evelyn Hamilton, was a British courtier.

Lady Lansdowne was a daughter of the 2nd Marquess of Abercorn (later Duke of Abercorn). On 8 November 1869, she married the 5th Marquess of Lansdowne at Westminster Abbey and they had four children:

• Lady Evelyn Emily Mary Petty-Fitzmaurice (27 August 1870–2 April 1960)
• Lord Henry William Edmund Petty-Fitzmaurice (14 January 1872–5 March 1936)
• Lord Charles George Francis Petty-Fitzmaurice (12 February 1874–30 October 1914)
• Lady Beatrix Frances Petty-Fitzmaurice (25 March 1877–5 August 1953)

From 1905 to 1909 she was a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Alexandra; she was Extra Lady from 1910 to 1925. During the First World War she set up the Officers' Families Fund and served as its president, and she and her husband gave their house, Lansdowne House in Berkeley Square, London, as its headquarters. For this and other charitable services, she was appointed Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in the 1920 civilian war honours.

She died in 1932 and was buried at Derry Hill Church, Chippenham, Wiltshire.

Preceded by HRH The Marchioness of Lorne

Viceregal Consort of Canada 1883–1888

Succeeded by The Countess of Derby

[edit] References

• Obituary, The Times, 22 October 1932