Mary Morgan-Grenville, 11th Lady Kinloss

The Right Honourable Mary Elizabeth Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 11th Lady Kinloss, CI (30 September 1852 – 17 October 1944) was a British peer.

The eldest of the three daughters of Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, and Caroline Harvey, she married Major Luis Courthorpe Morgan on 4 November 1884. She succeeded to the title of 11th Lady Kinloss upon the death of her father on 26 March 1889.

Due to her father's role of Governor of Madras (1875-1880), she was made a member of the Order of the Crown of India, styled Companion in 1878. She had acted as the Duke's host in Madras alongside her other two sisters, her father being a widower. In addition to her role as the Duke's hostess, she was also Churchwarden of Stowe Parish church. This was a role that was also occupied by Major Thomas Close-Smith at the same time, her son in law. Her eldest daughter the Hon. Mary Close-Smith became Churchwarden after her mother's death.

After selling Stowe in 1921, partly due to the loss of her eldest son and heir in the Great War and Stowe's high running costs and debts, she moved to Moreton Lodge, Maids Moreton. Her eldest daughter the Hon. Mrs. Thomas Close-Smith continued to live at Stowe, except at her husband's seat, Boycott Manor. Their descendants continue to live in the parish.

She was succeeded to the title Lady Kinloss by her 22-year-old granddaughter Mary Freeman-Grenville, 12th Lady Kinloss.

Children

• The Honourable Caroline Mary Elizabeth Morgan-Grenville, JP (26 June 1886 – 24 April 1972) – married Major Thomas Close-Smith (died 1946), of Boycott Manor, in 1909; he served as High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire in 1942
• The Honourable Richard George Grenville Morgan-Grenville (25 September 1887 – 1914)
• The Honourable Luis Chandos Francis Temple Morgan-Grenville (10 October 1889 – 2 August 1944)
• Lt.-Col. The Honourable Thomas George Breadalbane Morgan-Grenville (28 February 1891 – 10 January 1965)
• The Honourable Robert William Morgan-Grenville (21 July 1892 – 1988)
• Captain The Honourable Harry Nugent Morgan-Grenville (8 January 1896 – 1979)

See also

• Duke of Chandos
• Duke of Buckingham and Chandos

Citations

• L. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms (London, U.K.: Heraldry Today, 1972), p. 44
• Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 2, p. 2186
• Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, editor, Burke's Irish Family Records (London, U.K.: Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1976), p. 870

External links

• "Mary Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, Lady Kinloss"; profile at The Peerage; accessed 20 February 2014.