Biography of Louisa Susan Cornwallis Eliot Countess Bessborough 1825-1911

On 17 Dec 1825 Louisa Susan Cornwallis Eliot Countess Bessborough was born to Edward Granville Eliot 3rd Earl St Germans 1798-1877 (age 27) and Jemima Cornwallis Countess St Germans 1803-1856 (age 21).

In 1834 William Petty-Fitzmaurice (age 22) and [her future sister-in-law] Augusta Lavinia Priscilla Ponsonby (age 19) were married. She the daughter of John Ponsonby 4th Earl Bessborough 1781-1847 (age 52) and Maria Fane (age 47). He the son of Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice 3rd Marquess Lansdowne (age 53) and Louisa Fox-Strangways Marchioness Lansdowne -1851.

On 09 Aug 1838 Charles Frederick Ashley-Cooper Ponsonby 2nd Baron de Mauley (age 22) and [her future sister-in-law] Maria Jane Elizabeth Ponsonby Baroness Mauley (age 19) were married. She the daughter of John Ponsonby 4th Earl Bessborough 1781-1847 (age 56) and Maria Fane. They were first cousins.

On 19 Jan 1845 [her grandfather] William Eliot 2nd Earl St Germans (age 77) died. His son [her father] Edward Granville Eliot 3rd Earl St Germans 1798-1877 (age 46) succeeded 3rd Earl St Germans, 4th Baron Eliot of St Germans in Cornwall. [her mother] Jemima Cornwallis Countess St Germans 1803-1856 (age 41) by marriage Countess St Germans.

On 02 Apr 1845 Charles Alexander Gore (age 33) and [her future sister-in-law] Augusta Lavinia Priscilla Ponsonby (age 30) were married at All Souls Church Langham Place Marylebone. She the daughter of John Ponsonby 4th Earl Bessborough 1781-1847 (age 63) and Maria Fane.

On 15 Jan 1850 Walter William Brabazon Ponsonby 7th Earl Bessborough (age 28) and Louisa Susan Cornwallis Eliot Countess Bessborough (age 24) were married. She the daughter of Edward Granville Eliot 3rd Earl St Germans 1798-1877 (age 51) and Jemima Cornwallis Countess St Germans 1803-1856 (age 46). He the son of John Ponsonby 4th Earl Bessborough 1781-1847 and Maria Fane.

On 01 Mar 1851 [her son] Edward Ponsonby 8th Earl Bessborough 1851-1920 was born to [her husband] Walter William Brabazon Ponsonby 7th Earl Bessborough (age 29) and Louisa Susan Cornwallis Eliot Countess Bessborough (age 25).

Around 1852 [her daughter] Maria Ponsonby was born to [her husband] Walter William Brabazon Ponsonby 7th Earl Bessborough (age 30) and Louisa Susan Cornwallis Eliot Countess Bessborough (age 26).

On 08 Sep 1853 [her son] Cyril Walter Ponsonby was born to [her husband] Walter William Brabazon Ponsonby 7th Earl Bessborough (age 32) and Louisa Susan Cornwallis Eliot Countess Bessborough (age 27).

On 13 Sep 1854 [her son] Granville Ponsonby was born to [her husband] Walter William Brabazon Ponsonby 7th Earl Bessborough (age 33) and Louisa Susan Cornwallis Eliot Countess Bessborough (age 28).

On 08 Jan 1856 [her son] Arthur Cornwallis Ponsonby was born to [her husband] Walter William Brabazon Ponsonby 7th Earl Bessborough (age 34) and Louisa Susan Cornwallis Eliot Countess Bessborough (age 30).

On 02 Jul 1856 [her mother] Jemima Cornwallis Countess St Germans 1803-1856 (age 52) died at Dover Street.

On 08 Apr 1857 [her daughter] Ethel Jemima Ponsonby Baroness Raglan was born to [her husband] Walter William Brabazon Ponsonby 7th Earl Bessborough (age 35) and Louisa Susan Cornwallis Eliot Countess Bessborough (age 31).

On 09 Feb 1858 [her brother-in-law] Gerald Henry Brabazon Ponsonby (age 28) and Maria Emma Catherine Coventry (age 21) were married. He the son of John Ponsonby 4th Earl Bessborough 1781-1847 and Maria Fane.

On 31 Jul 1859 [her son] Walter Gerald Ponsonby was born to [her husband] Walter William Brabazon Ponsonby 7th Earl Bessborough (age 37) and Louisa Susan Cornwallis Eliot Countess Bessborough (age 33).

On 25 Jun 1861 [her sister-in-law] Georgiana Sarah Ponsonby (age 53) died.

On 09 Jul 1863 [her sister-in-law] Kathleen Louisa Georgina Ponsonby (age 36) died.

On 03 Feb 1877 [her sister-in-law] Emily Charlotte Mary Ponsonby (age 59) died.

On 28 Feb 1883 [her son-in-law] George Somerset 3rd Baron Raglan (age 25) and [her daughter] Ethel Jemima Ponsonby Baroness Raglan (age 25) were married. She the daughter of Walter William Brabazon Ponsonby 7th Earl Bessborough (age 61) and Louisa Susan Cornwallis Eliot Countess Bessborough 1825-1911 (age 57). They were second cousins.

On 11 Mar 1895 [her brother-in-law] Frederick George Brabazon Ponsonby 6th Earl Bessborough 1815-1895 (age 79) died. His brother [her husband] Walter William Brabazon Ponsonby 7th Earl Bessborough (age 73) succeeded 7th Earl Bessborough. Louisa Susan Cornwallis Eliot Countess Bessborough (age 69) by marriage Countess Bessborough.

On 13 Sep 1897 [her sister-in-law] Maria Jane Elizabeth Ponsonby Baroness Mauley (age 78) died.

On 16 Nov 1900 [her brother-in-law] Harriet Frederica Anne Ponsonby (age 75) died.

On 19 Nov 1904 [her sister-in-law] Augusta Lavinia Priscilla Ponsonby (age 90) died.

On 24 Feb 1906 [her husband] Walter William Brabazon Ponsonby 7th Earl Bessborough (age 84) died. His son [her son] Edward Ponsonby 8th Earl Bessborough 1851-1920 (age 54) succeeded 8th Earl Bessborough. [her daughter-in-law] Blanche Vere Guest Countess Bessborough 1847-1919 (age 59) by marriage Countess Bessborough.

On 30 Nov 1908 [her former brother-in-law] Gerald Henry Brabazon Ponsonby (age 79) died.

Times Newspaper Marriages. 22 Jun 1910. LORD ACHESON (age 33) AND MISS CARTER (age 22).

The marriage of Viscount Acheson (age 33), elder son of the Earl (age 68) and Countess of Gosford (age 54), and Miss Mildred Carter (age 22), only daughter of Mr. J. Ridgely Carter (age 46), American Minister to Rumania, and Mrs. Ridgely Carter (age 45), took place yesterday at St. George's, Hanover-square. The Sub-Dean of the Chapels Royal (the Rev. Edgar Sheppard, D.D.) performed the ceremony, assisted by the Rev. David Anderson and other clergy, and Mr. Ridgely Carter (age 46) gave his daughter away. She wore a very simple wedding gown of soft white satin with a long train draped with old point de Venise, and a Venetian lace cap over a spray of myrtle and orange blossom, covered by a plain tulle veil. Master David Stanley, Master Julian Ward, and Miss Diana Roberts, dressed all in white, followed the bride, and there were seven bridesmaids, Lady Theo Acheson (age 28) (sister of the bridegroom), Lady Victoria Stanley, Mlle. Irene deo La Grange, Miss Canilla Morgan, the Hon. Rhoda Astley, Miss Elsie Nicholl, and Miss Marian Scranton, who wore white chiffon dresses with draped bodices and wreaths of myrtle beneath tulle veils. They also wore diamond neckislides and carried loose bunches of red roses. The Hon. Patrick Acheson (age 26) was best man to his brother.

Mrs. Ridgely Carter (age 45) afterwards held a large reception at Dorchester House (lent by the American Ambassador and Mrs. Whitelaw Reid), and among the many who came on from the church were the French, Russian, German, Spanish, and Italian Ambassadors, the Danish Minister, tho Rumanian Minister, the Swedish Minister and Countess Wrangel, Mme. Dominguez, the Servian Charge d'Affaires and Mme. Grouitel, the Chilian Minister and Mme. Gana, the Belgian Minister and Countess de Lalaing, the Duke (age 63) and Duchess of Somerset (age 57), Katharine Duchess of Westminster (age 53) and Lady Helen Grosvenor (age 22), Prince and Princess Alexis Dolgorouki, the Marquis and Marchioness of Hamilton, the Marchioness of Tweeddale, the Marquis (age 48) and Marchioness of Salisbury (age 42), the Marchioness of Anglesey (age 26), the Countess of Powis (age 45), the Earl (age 56) and Countess of Chesterfield, the Countess of Kintore and Lady Hilda Keith-Falconer, the Earl (age 68) and Countess of Gosford (age 54), Prince and Princess Frederick Liechtenstein, the Countess of Kimberley, Countess Grey, the Marquis d'Hautpoul, the Countess of Leicester (age 54) and Lady Bridget Coke (age 19), the Earl (age 41) and Countess of Craven (age 38), the Earl of Desart, Countess Fritz Hochberg, the Earl and Countess of Meath, the Countess of Bilmorey, the Countess of Londesborough (age 49) and Lady Irene Denison (age 19), the Earl and Countess of Derby (age 70), the Earl (age 51) and Countess of Yarborough (age 51), Ellen Lady Inchiquin and the Hon Lilah O'Brien, Lord and Lady Charles Beresford, Lord and Lady Leith of Fyvie, Lady Saltoun, Baroness Nunburnholme (age 30), Baroness Newborough, Sir John and Lady Lister-Raye, Lord and Lady Monson, Lord and Baroness Savile, Lady Rothschild, Viscount and Viscountess AIdleton, Lady Alexander Paget, Lady Harcourt, Lady Desborough, Lord Suffield, Sir Herbert and Lady Jekyll and Miss Jekyll, the Hon. Sir Francis and Baroness Ufford and Miss Viliers, Lady Heien Vincent, Lord Knaresborough and the Hon. Helen Meysey-Thompson, Lady Pauncefote, Lord and Lady Weardale, Lady Grace Baring, Lord Strathcona, Lady Margaret Graham and Miss Graham, Sir Francis and Lady Channing, Mary Baroness Gerard, Baroness Manners and the Hon. Misses Manners, Lady Edward Cavendish, Mme. Langenbach, Lord Revelstoke, the Countess of Bessborough (age 84) and Ladv Gweneth Ponsonby (age 22), Lord Aberdare and the Hon. Eva Bruce, the Hon. Harry and Mrs. Lawson, Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Martin, Mrs. F. Vanderbilt, Mrs. Arthur James, Mrs. Walter Burns, Mrs. Lewis Harcourt, Mrs. Lowther and Miss Lokther, Mine. Vagliano, Captain and Mrs. Clonman, Miss Ralli, Mr. William Giuett, Mrs: Hwfa Williams, the Hon. Mrs. Derek Keppel, Mr. William Phillips, Mrs. Frank D'Arcy, the Hon. Lady Murray, Mr. and Mrs. Meyer Sassoon, Sir Bartle Frere, Mme. de Bille, Mrs. Featherston- haugh, Mrs. Cotton Jodrell, Mrs. Frank Mackay, the Hon. Urs. Charles Lawrence, the Hon. Mrs. Rochfort Maguire, Lady Barrymore, Mrs. Chauncey, and Mrs. Ronalds.

Lord (age 33) and Lady Acheson (age 22) left later in the afternoon for the Continent, the bride (age 22) travelling in a dress of grey chiffon and a large hat swathed in tulle to match the dress.

A list of the principal wedding presents was published in The Times yesterday.

On 15 Jan 1911 Louisa Susan Cornwallis Eliot Countess Bessborough (age 85) died.

[her daughter] Sara Kathleen Ponsonby was born to Walter William Brabazon Ponsonby 7th Earl Bessborough and Louisa Susan Cornwallis Eliot Countess Bessborough.

Family Trees of Louisa Susan Cornwallis Eliot Countess Bessborough 1825-1911

Paternal Family Tree: Eliot

Maternal Family Tree: Jane Maxwell Duchess Gordon 1748-1812

Descendants Family Trees:

Royal Ancestors of Louisa Susan Cornwallis Eliot Countess Bessborough 1825-1911

Kings Wessex: Great x 23 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England

Kings Gwynedd: Great x 20 Grand Daughter of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd 1100-1170

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

Kings Powys: Great x 21 Grand Daughter of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys 1047-1132

Kings England: Great x 11 Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland

Kings Scotland: Great x 16 Grand Daughter of Robert "The Bruce" I King Scotland

Kings Franks: Great x 19 Grand Daughter of Louis VII King Franks

Kings France: Great x 14 Grand Daughter of Charles "Beloved Mad" VI King France

Ancestors of Louisa Susan Cornwallis Eliot Countess Bessborough 1825-1911

Great x 4 Grandfather: Nicholas Eliot

Great x 3 Grandfather: William Eliot

Great x 2 Grandfather: Richard Eliot

Great x 1 Grandfather: Edward Craggs Eliot 1st Baron Eliot

Great x 4 Grandfather: James Craggs

Great x 3 Grandfather: James Craggs

Great x 2 Grandmother: Harriot Craggs

GrandFather: William Eliot 2nd Earl St Germans

Father: Edward Granville Eliot 3rd Earl St Germans 1798-1877 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: William Leveson-Gower 4th Baronet

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Leveson-Gower 1st Baron Gower

Great x 4 Grandmother: Jane Granville Baroness Gower

Great x 2 Grandfather: John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Manners 1st Duke Rutland 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Catherine Manners Baroness Gower 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Catherine Noel Duchess Rutland 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 1 Grandfather: Granville Leveson-Gower 1st Marquess Stafford 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Pierrepont 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Evelyn Pierrepont 1st Duke Kingston upon Hull 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Evelyn

Great x 2 Grandmother: Evelyn Pierrepont Baroness Gower 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: William Feilding 2nd Earl Desmond 3rd Earl Denbigh 1640-1685 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Fielding Countess Kingston upon Hull 1668-1697 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Carey Countess Desmond and Denbigh 1632-1682 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

GrandMother: Georgiana Augusta Leveson-Gower 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: James Stewart 5th Earl Galloway 1670-1746 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Douglas Countess Galloway 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Alexander Stewart 6th Earl Galloway 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Alexander Montgomerie 9th Earl Eglinton 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Catherine Montgomerie Countess Galloway 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Cochrane

Great x 1 Grandmother: Susanna Stewart Marchioness Stafford -1805 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Louisa Susan Cornwallis Eliot Countess Bessborough 1825-1911 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland

Great x 4 Grandfather: Charles Cornwallis 3rd Baron Cornwallis 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Charles Cornwallis 4th Baron Cornwallis 13 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Fox Baroness Cornwallis

Great x 2 Grandfather: Charles Cornwallis 1st Earl Cornwallis 1700-1762 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Butler 1st Earl Arran 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Charlotte Butler Baroness Cornwallis 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Dorothy Ferrers Countess Arran 1655-1716 14 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 1 Grandfather: Charles Cornwallis 1st Marquess Cornwallis 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Horatio Townshend 1st Viscount Townsend 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Charles Townshend 2nd Viscount Townsend 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Ashe Viscountess Townshend

Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Townshend Countess Cornwallis -1785 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Pelham 1st Baron Pelham of Laughton 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Pelham Viscountess Townsend 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Jones

GrandFather: Charles Cornwallis 2nd Marquess Cornwallis 1774-1823 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Unamed Tullekin Jones

Great x 1 Grandmother:

Mother: Jemima Cornwallis Countess St Germans 1803-1856 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland

Great x 4 Grandfather: George Gordon 1st Duke Gordon 1643-1716 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Alexander Gordon 2nd Duke Gordon 1678-1728 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Howard Duchess Gordon 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Cosmo George Gordon 3rd Duke Gordon 1720-1752 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Charles Mordaunt 3rd Earl Peterborough 1st Earl Monmouth 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Henrietta Mordaunt Duchess Gordon -1760 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 1 Grandfather: Alexander Gordon 4th Duke Gordon 8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland

Great x 2 Grandmother: Catherine Gordon Duchess Gordon 1718-1799 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Murray 1st Duke Atholl 5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland

Great x 3 Grandmother: Susan Murray 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland

Great x 4 Grandmother: Catherine Hamilton Duchess Atholl 1662-1707 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

GrandMother: Louisa Gordon Marchioness Cornwallis 1776-1850 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland

Great x 2 Grandfather: William Maxwell

Great x 1 Grandmother: Jane Maxwell Duchess Gordon