Her Excellency The Most Honourable
The Marchioness of Lansdowne
VA CI GBE CH GCStJ
Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Alexandra
In office
1905–1910
Viceregal-Consort of India
In office
10 December 1888 – 11 October 1894
MonarchQueen Victoria
Preceded byThe Countess of Dufferin
Succeeded byThe Countess of Elgin
Personal details
Born
Lady Maud Evelyn Hamilton

(1850-12-17)17 December 1850
St George Hanover Square, London, England
Died21 October 1932(1932-10-21) (aged 81)
St George Hanover Square, London, England
Spouse
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(m. 1869; died 1927)​
ChildrenEvelyn Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 6th Marquess of Lansdowne
Lord Charles Petty-Fitzmaurice
Beatrix Beauclerk, Duchess of St Albans
Parents

Maud Evelyn Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne, VA, CI, GBE, CH, GCStJ (née Hamilton; 17 December 1850 – 21 October 1932), was a British aristocrat and courtier. She was the wife of Henry Charles Keith Petty-FitzMaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Governor General of Canada from 1883 to 1888. She was then Vicereine of India from 1888 to 1894 while her husband was Viceroy.

Marriage

Lady Lansdowne was a daughter of James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn, and Lady Louisa Jane Russell.[1] On 8 November 1869, she married Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, at Westminster Abbey and they had four children:[1]

Later years

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 lent their house, Lansdowne House in Berkeley Square, London, to serve as its headquarters. She had previously done the same in the Second Boer War.[2] She also set up an auxiliary Red Cross hospital in the Orangery at Bowood House on their Wiltshire estate.[3]

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. [4]

Death

She died in 1932, aged 81, and was buried (as her husband had been, five years earlier) at Derry Hill church, at the gates of their Bowood estate.[5]

Ancestry

References

  1. 1 2 Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke’s Peerage & Gentry. p. 2240. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
  2. ↑ "Officers' Families' Fund". The Times. 16 January 1900. p. 5.
  3. ↑ "Bowood home front exhibition marking First World War centenary". This is Wiltshire.
  4. ↑ "No. 31840". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 March 1920. p. 3757.
  5. ↑ Historic England. "Christ Church (1253593)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
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