Frances Caroline Wedderburn-Webster

Lady Frances Caroline Wedderburn-Webster (née Annesley; 1793-1837) was the daughter of Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Mountnorris and Sarah, daughter of Sir Henry Cavendish, 2nd Baronet.[1][2]

Reputedly Lord Byron and the Duke of Wellington were among her lovers, although neither of these affairs may have gone beyond flirtation.[3] On hearing of her affair with Wellington, a jealous Byron penned a poem entitled "When We Two Parted".[4][5] She gave her first son "Byron" as a middle name, and a later son she named "George Gordon". The 2008 book Byron and the Websters : the letters and entangled lives of the poet, Sir James Webster and Lady Frances Webster describes more of their lives.[6]

She also took as her lover the Regency dandy Scrope Berdmore Davies.[7]

Family

On 10 October 1810 Frances married James Wedderburn-Webster,[8] known as "Bold" Webster. They had five children:

  • Lucy Sarah Anne (1812–1864)[9]
  • Charles Byron (born 1815–1817).[10] Born in Paris on 28 August 1815 he died at Nantes on October 1817. He was buried in Caen Cathedral, where there is a monument to him.[10][lower-alpha 1]
  • Charles Francis (1820–1886)[9]
  • Augustus George (1821–1845)[10]
  • George Gordon Trophime-Gérard de Lally-Tollendal (1827–1875)[10] (see Marquis de Lally-Tollendal)

Notes

  1. ↑ Frances was heavily pregnant with a child, which was christened Charles Byron, when she attended the Duchess of Richmond's ball and sat next to the Duke of Wellington.
  1. ↑ Lundy 2014a, p. 59843 § 598429 cites Mosley 2003, p. 3976
  2. ↑ Lundy 2014b, p. 25515 § 255142 cites Mosley 2003, p. 4095
  3. ↑ Byron & Marchand 1976, p. 28.
  4. ↑ MacCarthy 2014, pp. 327.
  5. ↑ Brinkley & Hanley 1992, pp. 191–192.
  6. ↑ Stewart, John (2008). Byron and the Websters : the letters and entangled lives of the poet, Sir James Webster and Lady Frances Webster. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co. ISBN 9780786432400.
  7. ↑ Peach, Annette (23 September 2004). "Davies, Scrope Berdmore (1782–1852), dandy and friend of Lord Byron". Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/59368. Retrieved 5 May 2018.
  8. ↑ Lodge 1839, p. 358.
  9. 1 2 Wedderburn 1898, p. 335.
  10. 1 2 3 4 Wedderburn 1898, p. 334.

References

  • Brinkley, Robert; Hanley, Keith (1992), Romantic Revisions, Cambridge University Press, p. 191, ISBN 978-0-521-38074-4
  • Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron; Marchand, Leslie Alexis (1976), "So Late Into the Night": 1816-1817, Harvard University Press, p. 28, ISBN 978-0-674-08945-7
  • Lodge, Edmund (1839), The Peerage of the British Empire as at Present Existing: Arranged and Printed from the Personal Communications of the Nobility, Saunders and Otley, p. 358
  • Lundy, Daryl (14 November 2014a), Lady Frances Caroline Annesley, p. 59843 § 598429, retrieved June 2015 Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  • Lundy, Daryl (14 November 2014b), Hon. Sarah Cavendish, p. 25515 § 255142, retrieved June 2015 Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  • MacCarthy, Fiona (2014), Byron: Life and Legend, Hodder & Stoughton, p. 327, ISBN 978-1-4447-9987-3
  • Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003), Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage (107th in 3 volumes ed.), Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage, pp. 3976, 4095
  • Wedderburn, Alexander Dundas Ogilvy (1898), The Wedderburn book: a history of the Wedderburns in the counties of Berwick, and Forfar, Printed for private circulation
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