Biography of Mary Herbert Marchioness Ailesbury 1813-1892

Paternal Family Tree: Herbert

Maternal Family Tree: Yekaterina Semyonovna Vorontsova Countess Pembroke and Montgomery 1784-1856

On 26 Jan 1794 [her grandfather] Henry Herbert 10th Earl Pembroke 7th Earl Montgomery (age 59) died. His son [her father] George Augustus Herbert 11th Earl Pembroke 8th Earl Montgomery (age 34) succeeded 11th Earl Pembroke8th Earl Montgomery.

On 08 Apr 1797 [her father] George Augustus Herbert 11th Earl Pembroke 8th Earl Montgomery (age 37) and Elisabeth Beauclerk were married. He the son of Henry Herbert 10th Earl Pembroke 7th Earl Montgomery and Elizabeth Spencer Countess Pembroke and Montgomery (age 60). They were first cousins. She a great x 2 granddaughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.

On 25 Jan 1808 [her father] George Augustus Herbert 11th Earl Pembroke 8th Earl Montgomery (age 48) and [her mother] Yekaterina Semyonovna Vorontsova Countess Pembroke and Montgomery (age 23) were married. She by marriage Countess Pembroke, Countess Montgomery. The difference in their ages was 25 years. He the son of Henry Herbert 10th Earl Pembroke 7th Earl Montgomery and Elizabeth Spencer Countess Pembroke and Montgomery (age 70).

In 1813 Mary Herbert Marchioness Ailesbury was born to George Augustus Herbert 11th Earl Pembroke 8th Earl Montgomery (age 53) and Yekaterina Semyonovna Vorontsova Countess Pembroke and Montgomery (age 28).

On 23 Nov 1826 Frederick William Thomas Vernon Wentworth (age 31) and [her future sister-in-law] Augusta Frederica Brudenell (age 31) were married. She the daughter of Charles Brudenell 1st Marquess Ailesbury (age 53) and Henrietta Maria Hill. They were first cousin once removed.

On 26 Oct 1827 [her father] George Augustus Herbert 11th Earl Pembroke 8th Earl Montgomery (age 68) died. His son [her half-brother] Robert Henry Herbert 12th Earl Pembroke 9th Earl Montgomery (age 36) succeeded 12th Earl Pembroke, 9th Earl Montgomery.

On 11 May 1837 George William Frederick Brudenell 2nd Marquess Ailesbury (age 32) and Mary Herbert Marchioness Ailesbury (age 24) were married. She the daughter of George Augustus Herbert 11th Earl Pembroke 8th Earl Montgomery and Yekaterina Semyonovna Vorontsova Countess Pembroke and Montgomery (age 52). He the son of Charles Brudenell 1st Marquess Ailesbury (age 64) and Henrietta Maria Hill.

In 1847 [her sister-in-law] Elizabeth Brudenell (age 40) died.

On 04 Jan 1856 [her father-in-law] Charles Brudenell 1st Marquess Ailesbury (age 82) died. His son [her husband] George William Frederick Brudenell 2nd Marquess Ailesbury (age 51) succeeded 2nd Marquess Ailesbury, 3rd Earl Ailesbury, 2nd Earl Bruce of Whorlton in Yorkshire, 2nd Viscount Savernake of Savernake Forest in Wiltshire, 4th Baron Bruce of Tottenham in Wiltshire. Mary Herbert Marchioness Ailesbury (age 43) by marriage Marchioness Ailesbury.

On 27 Mar 1856 [her mother] Yekaterina Semyonovna Vorontsova Countess Pembroke and Montgomery (age 71) died.

Adeline Horsey Recollections. On the morning of July 12, 1858, I was awakened by a loud knocking at the front door. I looked at my watch, and saw that it was not seven o'clock; I was, needless to say, very alarmed, as I wondered whether anything had happened to my father or my brothers. The knocking continued - I heard the bolts drawn, the door opened, and a voice I knew well called impatiently for me. It was Lord Cardigan (age 60) ! I had just time to slip on a dressing-gown before he came into my room, sans ceremonie, and taking me in his arms he said, "' My dearest, she's (age 60) dead ... let's get married at once". Then I knew that the trying period of our probation was over, and that we were free to be happy together at last.

When Cardigan (age 60) grew calmer he told me he had just come from his wife's (age 60) death-bed. The poor lady (age 60) had urged him to marry me, saying she knew that I should make him happy. She had also warned him against Maria, Marchioness of Ailesbury (age 45), the extent of whose love affairs, it appears, was only known to Lady Cardigan (age 60), who told his Lordship (age 60) the unvarnished truth about them.

Note A. I did not wish to insult the memory of the dead woman (age 60), who had shown me so many kindnesses, I refused to marry Cardigan (age 60) until some time had elapsed. He went to Ireland in his official capacity of Inspector of Cavalry, and I lived on quietly at Norfolk Street till September, when I left London for Cowes. I then went on board Lord Cardigan's yacht the Airedale, where he and a party of friends were awaiting me, and we sailed for Gibraltar.

Nothing particular occurred en route; we were all in the best of spirits, and I felt as though I were the Princess in some delightful fairy-tale. The day after we arrived at Gibraltar there was a terrible storm, almost tropical in its violence. Roofs were torn off houses and whirled, light as dead leaves, through the air, great trees were uprooted, heavy masonry fell everywhere, and the ships tossed about like cockle-shells in the harbour. It was almost a scene from the Inferno, and our horror was intensified when we saw the signals from a French vessel in distress. Nobody seemed inclined to put out, so I begged Lord Cardigan (age 60) to send the Airedale to try and save the crew. He assented, and through this timely aid from our yacht fourteen men were rescued, and we also took a French poodle off a raft to which he was clinging, his owner doubtless having been drowned.

Adeline Horsey Recollections. In January 1859, I went to the House of Lords to hear the debate from the Peeresses Gallery. I was sitting near the Duchess of Cambridge (age 61) and Princess Mary (age 25), when Maria, Marchioness of Ailesbury (age 46), made her appearance. I had not met her since my marriage, but I could see by her look that for some reasons of her own she meant to cut me, so I thought I would carry the war into the enemy's camp, and just as she was about to pass me, I said, "Oh, Lady Ailesbury, you may like to know that before Lady Cardigan died she told my Lord (age 61) all about you and your illegitimate children!".

Lady A. (age 46) looked nervously round and said in an agitated whisper, "Hush, hush, my dear, I'm coming to lunch with you to-morrow". She never asked me what Lady Cardigan had particularly said, but from that day we were outwardly the best of friends.

On my return to England as Countess of Cardigan, I need hardly say that every one was very anxious to be on good terms with me, and my own family were the first to make peaceful overtures. I had no wish to keep up the quarrel. As my marriage plainly showed how right I was in trusting Cardigan, and the motives of our much-discussed friendship were now openly vindicated, I let bygones be by-gones, and we were all good friends again.

In 1869 [her sister-in-law] Augusta Frederica Brudenell (age 74) died.

In Jan 1892 Mary Herbert Marchioness Ailesbury (age 79) died at 78 Pall Mall [Map].

Christian Danneskiold Samsøe and Elizabeth Brudenell were married. She the daughter of Charles Brudenell 1st Marquess Ailesbury and Henrietta Maria Hill.

Royal Ancestors of Mary Herbert Marchioness Ailesbury 1813-1892

Kings Wessex: Great x 22 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England

Kings Gwynedd: Great x 19 Grand Daughter of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd

Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 25 Grand Daughter of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth

Kings Powys: Great x 20 Grand Daughter of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys

Kings England: Great x 13 Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Kings Scotland: Great x 17 Grand Daughter of William "Lion" I King Scotland

Kings Franks: Great x 18 Grand Daughter of Louis VII King Franks

Kings France: Great x 15 Grand Daughter of Philip "The Fair" IV King France

Ancestors of Mary Herbert Marchioness Ailesbury 1813-1892

Great x 4 Grandfather: Philip Herbert 4th Earl Pembroke 1st Earl Montgomery 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Philip Herbert 5th Earl Pembroke 2nd Earl Montgomery 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Susan Vere Countess Montgomery 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Herbert 8th Earl Pembroke 5th Earl Montgomery 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: William Villiers 1st Baronet

Great x 3 Grandmother: Catherine Villiers Countess Pembroke and Montgomery

Great x 4 Grandmother: Rebecca Roper Lady Villiers

Great x 1 Grandfather: Henry Herbert 6th Earl Montgomery 9th Earl Pembroke 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Edmund Sawyer of Heywood Lodge in White Waltham in Berkshire

Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Sawyer

Great x 2 Grandmother: Margaret Sawyer Countess Pembroke and Montgomery

GrandFather: Henry Herbert 10th Earl Pembroke 7th Earl Montgomery 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: William Fitzwilliam 3rd Viscount Fitzwilliam 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Fitzwilliam 4th Viscount Fitzwilliam 13 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Richard Fitzwilliam 5th Viscount Fitzwilliam 14 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 1 Grandmother: Mary Fitzwilliam Countess Pembroke and Montgomery 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Charles Shelley 2nd Baronet 13 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Shelley 3rd Baronet 14 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Weston

Great x 2 Grandmother: Frances Shelley Viscountess Fitzwilliam 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: George Neville 11th and 9th Baron Bergavenny 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Winifred Neville Lady Shelley 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Gifford Baroness Bergavenny

Father: George Augustus Herbert 11th Earl Pembroke 8th Earl Montgomery 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Spencer 1st Earl of Sunderland 8 x Great Grand Son of Henry IV King England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Spencer 2nd Earl of Sunderland 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Dorothy Sidney Countess Sunderland 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Charles Spencer 3rd Earl of Sunderland 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: George Digby 2nd Earl Bristol 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Digby Countess Sunderland 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Russell Countess Bristol 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 1 Grandfather: Charles Spencer 3rd Duke Marlborough 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Winston Churchill

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Churchill 1st Duke Marlborough 14 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Drake 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Churchill Countess Sunderland 15 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Jennings

Great x 3 Grandmother: Sarah Jennings Duchess Marlborough

Great x 4 Grandmother: Frances Thornhurst

GrandMother: Elizabeth Spencer Countess Pembroke and Montgomery 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Trevor

Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Trevor 1st Baron Trevor Bromham

Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Trevor 2nd Baron Trevor Bromham

Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Searle

Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Trevor Duchess Marlborough

Mary Herbert Marchioness Ailesbury 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

GrandFather: Semyon Romanovich Vorontsova

Mother: Yekaterina Semyonovna Vorontsova Countess Pembroke and Montgomery