On this Day in History ... 7th October

07 Oct is in October.

1665 Great Plague of London

1688 Trial and Imprisonment of the Seven Bishops

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Events on the 7th October

On 07 Oct 919 Charles "Simple" III King West Francia (age 40) and Eadgifu Wessex Queen Consort West Francia were married. She by marriage Queen Consort West Francia. She the daughter of King Edward "Elder" of the Anglo Saxons (age 45) and Aelfflaed Wiltshire Queen Anglo Saxons (age 49). He the son of Louis "Stammerer" II King Aquitaine III King West Francia and Adelaide Paris Queen Consort Aquitaine and West Francia.

On 07 Oct 929 Charles "Simple" III King West Francia (age 50) died.

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. 1022. This year went King Knute (age 27) out with his ships to the Isle of Wight [Map]. And Bishop Ethelnoth went to Rome; where he was received with much honour by Benedict the magnificent pope, who with his own hand placed the pall upon him, and with great pomp consecrated him archbishop, and blessed him, on the nones of October. The archbishop on the self-same day with the same pall performed mass, as the pope directed him, after which he was magnificently entertained by the pope himself; and afterwards with a full blessing proceeded homewards. Abbot Leofwine, who had been unjustly expelled from Ely, was his companion; and he cleared himself of everything, which, as the pope informed him, had been laid to his charge, on the testimony of the archbishop and of all the company that were with him.

On 07 Oct 1471 Richard Willoughby died. He was buried in St Leonard's Church Wollaton, Nottinghamshire [Map].

Monument to Richard Willoughby and Anna Leeke. Excellent brass with Cadaver Underneath. The arms being, left to right, Bugge Arms, Bugge Arms impaled with Leeke, Bugge Arms impaled with Foljambe Arms, Bugge Arms impaled with Annesley Arms.

Richard Willoughby: he was born to Hugh Willoughby and Isabel Foljambe. In or before 1468 Richard Willoughby and Anna Leeke were married.

Anna Leeke: Around 1425 she was born to Simon Leeke in Cotham Ollerton. Around 1468 Anna Leeke died in Wollaton. She was buried at St Leonard's Church Wollaton, Nottinghamshire.

On 07 Oct 1471 King Frederick I of Denmark was born to Christian I King Denmark (age 45) and Dorothea of Brandenburg (age 40).

On 07 Oct 1548 Augustus Wettin Elector of Saxony (age 22) and Anna Oldenburg (age 15) were married at Torgau. She the daughter of Christian III King Denmark (age 45) and Dorothea of Saxe Lauenburg Queen Consort Denmark and Norway (age 37). They were third cousin once removed.

On 07 Oct 1573 Archbishop William Laud was born to William Laud and Lucy Webbe at Reading [Map].

Evelyn's Diary. 07 Oct 1660. There dined with me a French count, with Sir George Tuke, who came to take leave of me, being sent over to the Queen-Mother (age 50), to break the marriage of the Duke (age 26) with the daughter (age 23) of Chancellor Hyde (age 51). The Queen (age 50) would fain have undone it; but it seems matters were reconciled, on great offers of the Chancellor's (age 51) to befriend the Queen (age 50), who was much in debt, and was now to have the settlement of her affairs go through his hands.

Pepy's Diary. 07 Oct 1663. They wrought in the morning, and I did keep my bed, and my pain continued on me mightily that I kept within all day in great pain, and could break no wind nor have any stool after my physic had done working. So in the evening I took coach and to Mr. Holliard's (age 54), but he was not at home, and so home again, and whether the coach did me good or no I know not....

Pepy's Diary. 07 Oct 1665. Thence back the back way to my office, where very late, very busy. But most of all when at night come two waggons from Rochester, Kent [Map] with more goods from Captain Cocke (age 48); and in houseing them at Mr. Tooker's lodgings come two of the Custome-house to seize them, and did seize them but I showed them my 'Transire'. However, after some hot and angry words, we locked them up, and sealed up the key, and did give it to the constable to keep till Monday, and so parted. But, Lord! to think how the poor constable come to me in the dark going home; "Sir", says he, "I have the key, and if you would have me do any service for you, send for me betimes to-morrow morning, and I will do what you would have me". Whether the fellow do this out of kindness or knavery, I cannot tell; but it is pretty to observe. Talking with him in the high way, come close by the bearers with a dead corpse of the plague; but, Lord! to see what custom is, that I am come almost to think nothing of it.

Evelyn's Diary. 07 Oct 1688. Hourly expectation of the Prince of Orange's (age 37) invasion heightened to that degree, that his Majesty (age 54) thought fit to abrogate the Commission for the dispensing Power (but retaining his own right still to dispense with all laws) and restore the ejected Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford. In the meantime, he called over 5,000 Irish, and 4,000 Scots, and continued to remove Protestants and put in Papists at Portsmouth and other places of trust, and retained the Jesuits about him, increasing the universal discontent. It brought people to so desperate a pass, that they seemed passionately to long for and desire the landing of that Prince (age 37), whom they looked on to be their deliverer from Popish tyranny, praying incessantly for an east wind, which was said to be the only hindrance of his expedition with a numerous army ready to make a descent. To such a strange temper, and unheard of in former times, was this poor nation reduced, and of which I was an eyewitness. The apprehension was (and with reason) that his Majesty's (age 54) forces would neither at land nor sea oppose them with that vigor requisite to repel invaders.

Evelyn's Diary. 07 Oct 1688. The late imprisoned Bishops were now called to reconcile matters, and the Jesuits hard at work to foment confusion among the Protestants by their usual tricks. A letter was sent to the Archbishop of Canterbury (age 71), informing him, from good hands, of what was contriving by them. A paper of what the Bishops advised his Majesty was published. The Bishops were enjoined to prepare a form of prayer against the feared invasion. A pardon published. Soldiers and mariners daily pressed.

On 07 Oct 1710 Hester Salusbury (age 73) died. She was buried at St Marcella's Church, Denbigh [Map].

Hester Salusbury: In 1637 she was born to Thomas Salusbury 2nd Baronet and Hester Tyrrell Lady Salusbury. Around 1666 Robert Cotton 1st Baronet and she were married. They had five sons and eleven daughters and over one hundred grandchildren. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland. On 23 May 1684 John Salusbury 4th Baronet died. Baronet Salusbury of Lleweni in Denbighshire extinct. His sister Hester Salusbury and her husband Robert Cotton 1st Baronet inherited his estates. Combermere Papers. After 23 Sep 1685. By an act of kindness unusual on the part of James II Sir Robert was allowed the society of one of his family within the Tower He chose his fourth son Thomas a boy of eleven years old and beguiled the tedium of captivity by teaching him to read. Lady Cotton not being allowed to share her husband's imprisonment used to walk every day at a certain hour on Tower Hill till she learnt by an agreed signal hung out from a window that her husband was well. After a short delay Sir Robert was released the charge made against him having been found to be groundless. That there were however letters although perhaps not treasonable from the Electress Sophia we learn from Mrs Piozzi who when a child saw some of this correspondence. She was too young to recollect anything about the contents but was afterwards told that they were full of Latin quotations. In accordance with what seems to have been a family mania for the destruction of papers Lord Combermere's father burnt the letters in question

On 07 Oct 1733 Thomas Stayner (age 68) died at West Hampton. He was buried at Corpus Christi College, Oxford University.

On 07 Oct 1748 Charles XIII King Sweden was born to Adolph Frederick King Sweden (age 38) and Louisa Ulrika of Prussia Queen Consort of Sweden (age 28).. He a great grandson of King George I of Great Britain and Ireland.

On 07 Oct 1871 Louise Blanche Howard (age 29) died from childbirth six weeks after the birth of a child who had died the same or next day after birth. The Foljambe Tomb. Monument in St Mary's Church Tickhill Doncaster [Map] commissioned by her husband Cecil George Savile Foljambe 1st Earl Liverpool (age 24) who had sixty monuments erected in her memory in places associated with her. Sculpted by William Calder Marshall (age 58).

Louise Blanche Howard: On 22 Feb 1842 she was born to Frederick Howard and Fanny Cavendish. On 22 Jul 1869 Cecil George Savile Foljambe 1st Earl Liverpool and she were married. On 21 Feb 1877 Cecil George Savile Foljambe 1st Earl Liverpool and Susan Louisa Cavendish Countess Liverpool were married. She was a first cousin of his first wife Louise Blanche Howard.

On 07 Oct 1915 Captain Charles Noel Ridley (age 30) died at St Omer having been mortally wounded on 29 Sep 1915. He was survived by his wife Daphne Bewicke and their three daughters. "The History of the Northumberland (Hussars) Yeomanry, 1819 – 1919 with Supplement to 1923" Edited by Howard Pease M.A., F.S.A. Printed by Constable & Co. Ltd. London 1924. On page 114 of the volume there is the following reference: September 30th [1915] – Most unfortunately Captain C.N. Ridley was killed, and about fourteen other ranks were wounded, whilst burying about forty men just behind "Gun Trench". He was buried at Longuenesse Souvenir Cemetery, St Omer, France.

Daphne Bewicke: In Sep 1907 Captain Charles Noel Ridley and she were married. After 1915 Hall Grant Pringle and she were married.

Births on the 7th October

On 07 Oct 1301 Aleksandr Mikhailovich of Tver was born.

On 07 Oct 1404 William Plumpton was born to Robert Plumpton (age 64) and Isabel Scrope (age 67).

On 07 Oct 1407 John Welles was born to Thomas Welles (age 22) at Little Hayward, Hoar Cross, Staffordshire.

On 07 Oct 1409 Elizabeth Luxemburg Duchess Austria was born to Sigismund I King Hungary I King Germany I King Bohemia Holy Roman Emperor Luxemburg (age 41) and Barbara of Cilli Holy Roman Empress (age 17).

On 07 Oct 1471 King Frederick I of Denmark was born to Christian I King Denmark (age 45) and Dorothea of Brandenburg (age 40).

On 07 Oct 1515 Duarte Aviz was born to Manuel "Fortunate" I King Portugal (age 46) and Maria Trastámara Queen Consort Portugal (age 33). Coefficient of inbreeding 8.38%.

On 07 Oct 1561 Maria Wettin was born to Johann Wilhelm Wettin Duke Saxe Weimar (age 31) and Dorothea Susanne Palatine Duchess Saxe Weimar at Weimar.

On 07 Oct 1563 Madeleine Bourbon Condé was born to Louis Bourbon Prince Condé (age 33) and Eléanor de Roucy de Roye Princess Condé (age 28).

On 07 Oct 1573 Archbishop William Laud was born to William Laud and Lucy Webbe at Reading [Map].

On 07 Oct 1577 Anna Oldenburg was born to John "Younger" Oldenburg Duke Schleswig Holstein Sonderburg (age 32) and Elisabeth of Brunswick-Grubenhagen (age 27).

On 07 Oct 1578 Eleonore Magdalene Wittelsbach was born to William Wittelsbach V Duke Bavaria (age 30) and Renata Lorraine Duchess Bavaria (age 34). Coefficient of inbreeding 2.86%.

On 07 Oct 1601 George Berkeley 8th Baron Berkeley was born to Thomas Berkeley (age 26) and Elizabeth Carey (age 25).

On 07 Oct 1607 Isabel María de Guzmán Duchess Frías was born.

On 07 Oct 1630 Sophie Hedwig Oldenburg was born to Philip Oldenburg (age 46).

On 07 Oct 1672 Ernst Ludwig I Duke of Saxe Meiningen was born to Bernhard I Duke of Saxe Meiningen (age 23).

On 07 Oct 1693 Margaret Lamplugh was born to Thomas Lamplugh (age 36) and Frances Moline (age 28).

On 07 Oct 1700 Henry Moore 4th Earl of Drogheda was born to Charles Moore Lord Moore and Jane Loftus (age 35).

Before 07 Oct 1704 Charles Gounter Nicoll was born to George Gounter.

On or before 07 Oct 1712, the date he was baptised, William Stawell was born to William Stawell 3rd Baron Stawell (age 30) and Elizabeth Pert Baroness Stawell (age 35).

On 07 Oct 1728 Theophilus Henry Hastings 11th Earl Huntingdon was born to Henry Hastings (age 27) and Elizabeth Hudson (age 27).

On 07 Oct 1729 Anne Bouverie was born to Jacob Bouverie 1st Viscount Folkestone (age 34) and Mary Clarke.

On 07 Oct 1732 William Anne Capell 4th Earl Essex was born to William Capell 3rd Earl Essex (age 35) and Elizabeth Russell Countess Essex (age 21) at Turin.

On 07 Oct 1748 Charles XIII King Sweden was born to Adolph Frederick King Sweden (age 38) and Louisa Ulrika of Prussia Queen Consort of Sweden (age 28).. He a great grandson of King George I of Great Britain and Ireland.

On 07 Oct 1762 Charles Abbott 1st Baron Tenterden was born .

On 07 Oct 1765 Nathaniel Ogle of Kirkley was born to Reverend Newton Ogle (age 39) and Susanna Thomas (age 31).

On 07 Oct 1766 Henry Howard-Molyneux-Howard was born to Henry Howard (age 53) and Julia Molyneux (age 23).

On 07 Oct 1778 Vice Admiral Charles Paget was born to Henry Bayly-Paget 1st Earl Uxbridge (age 34) and Jane Champagné Countess Uxbridge (age 36).

On 07 Oct 1778 Thomas Cranley Onslow was born to Thomas Onslow 2nd Earl Onslow (age 24) and Arabella Mainwaring Ellerker Countess Onslow (age 23).

On 07 Oct 1781 Henry Alexander Douglas was born to William Douglas 4th Baronet (age 51) and Grace d William Johnstone Lady Kelhead.

On 07 Oct 1787 General George de Lacy Evans was born.

On 07 Oct 1814 Louisa Anne Fleming Fane was born to William Mildmay Fane (age 25) and Louisa Hay Dashwood (age 23) in India. She was baptised on 01 Dec 1914 at Calcutta, India, Bengal.

On 07 Oct 1829 Julia Langston Countess Ducie was born to James Haughton Langston (age 33) and Julia Reynolds-Moreton (age 20).

On 07 Oct 1870 Friedrich Hesse Darmstadt was born to Prince Louis Hesse Darmstadt IV Grand Duke (age 33) and Princess Alice Saxe Coburg Gotha (age 27). He a grandson of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.

On 07 Oct 1884 John Frederick Lambton 5th Earl Durham was born to Frederick Lambton 4th Earl Durham (age 29) and Beatrix Bulteel Countess Durham (age 25). Coefficient of inbreeding 1.57%.

On 07 Oct 1914 Sarah Churchill Baroness Audley was born to Winston Churchill (age 39) and Clementine Hozier (age 29).

On 07 Oct 1967 Daniel Finch-Hatton 12th Earl Nottingham 17th Earl of Winchilsea was born to Christopher Finch-Hatton 11th Earl Nottingham 16th Earl of Winchilsea (age 30) and Shirley Hatfield Countess of Nottingham and Winchilsea.

Marriages on the 7th October

On 07 Oct 919 Charles "Simple" III King West Francia (age 40) and Eadgifu Wessex Queen Consort West Francia were married. She by marriage Queen Consort West Francia. She the daughter of King Edward "Elder" of the Anglo Saxons (age 45) and Aelfflaed Wiltshire Queen Anglo Saxons (age 49). He the son of Louis "Stammerer" II King Aquitaine III King West Francia and Adelaide Paris Queen Consort Aquitaine and West Francia.

On 07 Oct 1388 Roger Mortimer 4th Earl March 6th Earl Ulster (age 14) and Eleanor Holland Countess March and Ulster (age 17) were married. She by marriage Countess March, Countess Ulster. She the daughter of Thomas Holland 2nd Earl Kent (age 38) and Alice Fitzalan Countess Kent (age 38). He the son of Edmund Mortimer 3rd Earl March, Earl Ulster and Philippa Plantagenet Countess March 5th Countess Ulster. They were second cousin once removed. He a great grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great x 2 granddaughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England.

Before 07 Oct 1398 Edward York 2nd Duke of York 1st Duke Albemarle (age 25) and Philippa Mohun Duchess Albemarle aka Aumale Duchess York (age 31) were married. He the son of Edmund of Langley 1st Duke York (age 57) and Isabella of Castile Duchess York. He a grandson of King Edward III of England.

Before 07 Oct 1404 Robert Plumpton (age 64) and Isabel Scrope (age 67) were married. He a great x 5 grandson of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England.

Before 07 Oct 1409 Sigismund I King Hungary I King Germany I King Bohemia Holy Roman Emperor Luxemburg (age 41) and Barbara of Cilli Holy Roman Empress (age 17) were married. The difference in their ages was 23 years. He the son of Charles IV King Bohemia Holy Roman Emperor Luxemburg and Elizabeth Pomerania Holy Roman Empress Luxemburg.

On 07 Oct 1458 Louis King Cyprus (age 22) and Charlotte Queen Cyprus (age 14) were married. He by marriage King Cyprus. He the son of Louis Savoy I Count Savoy (age 45) and Anne Cyprus Countess Savoy (age 40). He a great x 5 grandson of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England.

On 07 Oct 1548 Augustus Wettin Elector of Saxony (age 22) and Anna Oldenburg (age 15) were married at Torgau. She the daughter of Christian III King Denmark (age 45) and Dorothea of Saxe Lauenburg Queen Consort Denmark and Norway (age 37). They were third cousin once removed.

Between 07 Oct 1597 and 07 Nov 1597 Duncan Campbell 1st Baronet (age 47) and Elizabeth Sinclair were married. They were second cousin once removed. He a great x 5 grandson of King Edward III of England.

On 07 Oct 1663 John Molesworth 2nd Baronet (age 28) and Margery Wise were married.

Before 07 Oct 1693 Thomas Lamplugh (age 36) and Frances Moline (age 28) were married.

On 07 Oct 1800 Reverend George Davies Kent (age 27) and Anne Chaplin (age 21) were married at St Peter at Arches Church, Lincoln.

On 07 Oct 1816 Reverend Edward Fane (age 32) and Maria Hodges (age 19) were married.

On 07 Oct 1826 Edward John Stanley 2nd Baron Stanley and 1st Baron Eddisbury (age 23) and Henrietta Maria Dillon Baroness Stanley Alderley and Eddisbury (age 18) were married. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King James II of England Scotland and Ireland.

On 07 Oct 1845 Edmund Beckett 1st Baron Grimthorpe (age 29) and Fanny Catherine Lonsdale Baroness Beckett (age 22) were married. She the daughter of Bishop John Lonsdale (age 57) and Sophia Bolland.

On 07 Oct 1847 Charles Henry Mainwaring (age 27) and Jane Delves Broughton (age 26) were married.

On 07 Oct 1855 Charles Frederick Smythe 7th Baronet (age 36) and Maria Stonor (age 23) were married.

On 07 Oct 1868 Lawrence Hesketh Palk 2nd Baron Haldon (age 22) and Constance Mary Barrington Baroness Haldon (age 21) were married. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.

On 07 Oct 1875 Charles Assheton Whately Pownall (age 26) and Dora Bourne Royds (age 24) were married at Holy Trinity Church, Wavertree [Map] by Reverend Pownall, Rector of South Kilwoith, Leicestershire.

On 07 Oct 1875 Reverend Sydney Henry Armistead (age 38) and Margaret Borne Royds (age 25) were married at Holy Trinity Church, Wavertree [Map] by Reverend Edward Royds (age 54), Rector of St Oswald's Church, Brereton [Map], uncle of the bride.

On 07 Oct 1914 Joseph Patrick Kennedy (age 26) and Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald (age 24) were married.

On 07 Oct 1920 Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart 17th Duke of Alba 10th Duke of Berwick (age 41) and María del Rosario de Silva Duchess of Alba (age 20) were married. The difference in their ages was 21 years. He the son of Carlos María Fitz James Stuart 16th Duke Alba 14th Duke Veragua 9th Duke Berwick.

On 07 Oct 1947 Spencer Cecil Ponsonby-Fane and Louisa Anne Rose Dillon were married. He the son of John Ponsonby 4th Earl Bessborough and Maria Fane. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King James II of England Scotland and Ireland.

Deaths on the 7th October

On 07 Oct 929 Charles "Simple" III King West Francia (age 50) died.

On 07 Oct 1260 Duke Albert I of Saxony (age 85) died.

On 07 Oct 1277 William Trussell (age 51) died.

On 07 Oct 1311 Robert de Holand of Upholland (age 69) died.

On 07 Oct 1368 Lionel Plantagenet 1st Duke of Clarence (age 29) died from poisoning at Alba [Map]. Duke Clarence extinct. He was buried at the St Pietro Ciel d'Oro Church, Pavia.

There was strong speculation he had been poisoned by his wife's (age 14) father (age 48).

On 07 Oct 1461 Jean Poton Xaintrailles (age 71) died.

On 07 Oct 1470 Joan Bourchier (age 28) died.

On 07 Oct 1471 Richard Willoughby died. He was buried in St Leonard's Church Wollaton, Nottinghamshire [Map].

Monument to Richard Willoughby and Anna Leeke. Excellent brass with Cadaver Underneath. The arms being, left to right, Bugge Arms, Bugge Arms impaled with Leeke, Bugge Arms impaled with Foljambe Arms, Bugge Arms impaled with Annesley Arms.

Richard Willoughby: he was born to Hugh Willoughby and Isabel Foljambe. In or before 1468 Richard Willoughby and Anna Leeke were married.

Anna Leeke: Around 1425 she was born to Simon Leeke in Cotham Ollerton. Around 1468 Anna Leeke died in Wollaton. She was buried at St Leonard's Church Wollaton, Nottinghamshire.

On 07 Oct 1493 Thomas Culpepper (age 12) died.

On 07 Oct 1494 John Sothill of Stoke Faston (age 54) died.

On 07 Oct 1506 Thomas Frowyk (age 46) died.

On 07 Oct 1534 John Stanley (age 64) died at Bromwich Hall, Stafford.

After 07 Oct 1551 Thomas Erskine (age 23) died.

On 07 Oct 1571 Dorothea of Saxe Lauenburg Queen Consort Denmark and Norway (age 60) died.

On 07 Oct 1580 Hamon Strange died.

On 07 Oct 1622 John Harpur of Swarkestone (age 76) died.

On 07 Oct 1636 James Tomkins (age 67) died.

On 07 Oct 1637 Victor Amadeus I Duke of Savoy (age 50) died.

On 07 Oct 1640 William Howard (age 76) died at Naworth Castle [Map]. He was buried at Greystoke, Cumberland.

On 07 Oct 1642 Anne Browne Lady Playters (age 78) died.

On 07 Oct 1676 Richard Neville (age 61) died.

On or before 07 Oct 1683 Susan Cressy died. She was buried on 07 Oct 1683.

On 07 Oct 1698 Thomas Barnardiston 2nd Baronet (age 52) died. His son Thomas Barnardiston 3rd Baronet (age 24) succeeded 3rd Baronet Barnardiston of Ketton in Suffolk.

On 07 Oct 1699 Charlotte Sarsfield (age 26) died.

On 07 Oct 1710 Helena Burke Countess Antrim died.

On 07 Oct 1710 Hester Salusbury (age 73) died. She was buried at St Marcella's Church, Denbigh [Map].

Hester Salusbury: In 1637 she was born to Thomas Salusbury 2nd Baronet and Hester Tyrrell Lady Salusbury. Around 1666 Robert Cotton 1st Baronet and she were married. They had five sons and eleven daughters and over one hundred grandchildren. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland. On 23 May 1684 John Salusbury 4th Baronet died. Baronet Salusbury of Lleweni in Denbighshire extinct. His sister Hester Salusbury and her husband Robert Cotton 1st Baronet inherited his estates. Combermere Papers. After 23 Sep 1685. By an act of kindness unusual on the part of James II Sir Robert was allowed the society of one of his family within the Tower He chose his fourth son Thomas a boy of eleven years old and beguiled the tedium of captivity by teaching him to read. Lady Cotton not being allowed to share her husband's imprisonment used to walk every day at a certain hour on Tower Hill till she learnt by an agreed signal hung out from a window that her husband was well. After a short delay Sir Robert was released the charge made against him having been found to be groundless. That there were however letters although perhaps not treasonable from the Electress Sophia we learn from Mrs Piozzi who when a child saw some of this correspondence. She was too young to recollect anything about the contents but was afterwards told that they were full of Latin quotations. In accordance with what seems to have been a family mania for the destruction of papers Lord Combermere's father burnt the letters in question

On 07 Oct 1724 Hester Busby died.

On 07 Oct 1731 Alice Caulfeild Baroness Carpenter (age 70) died.

On 07 Oct 1733 Thomas Stayner (age 68) died at West Hampton. He was buried at Corpus Christi College, Oxford University.

On 07 Oct 1743 Robert Austen 4th Baronet (age 46) died.

On 07 Oct 1745 Sophia Fermor Countess Granville died.

On 07 Oct 1752 Frances Clifford died.

On 07 Oct 1761 Elizabeth Trevor Duchess Marlborough (age 48) died.

On 30 Sep 1767 Martha Kenward Lady Page died. She was buried on 07 Oct 1767 at St Alfege's Church, Greenwich.

On 07 Oct 1772 Thomas Butler 6th Baronet died.

On 07 Oct 1777 Anne Gibson Lady Webb (age 72) died.

On 07 Oct 1781 Henry Howe 3rd Baron Chedworth (age 65) died. His nephew John Howe 4th Baron Chedworth (age 27) succeeded 4th Baron Chedworth.

On 07 Oct 1785 John Dormer 7th Baron Dormer (age 94) died. His son Charles Dormer 8th Baron Dormer (age 60) succeeded 8th Baron Dormer of Wyng in Buckinghamshire, 8th Baronet Dormer of Wyng in Buckinghamshire. Elizabeth Hamilton Baroness Dormer by marriage Baroness Dormer of Wyng in Buckinghamshire.

On 07 Oct 1793 Wills Hill 1st Marquess Downshire (age 75) died. His son Arthur Hill 2nd Marquess Downshire (age 40) succeeded 2nd Marquess Downshire. Mary Sandys Marchioness Downshire (age 29) by marriage Marchioness Downshire.

On 07 Oct 1796 John Steuart (age 81) died.

On 07 Oct 1798 John Parr (age 76) died.

On 07 Oct 1839 Anne Weston died.

On 07 Oct 1848 George Howard 6th Earl Carlisle (age 75) died. His son George Howard 7th Earl Carlisle (age 46) succeeded 7th Earl Carlisle.

On 07 Oct 1854 Henrietta Hay-Drummond (age 71) died.

On 07 Oct 1857 Selina Vesey died.

On 07 Oct 1871 Louise Blanche Howard (age 29) died from childbirth six weeks after the birth of a child who had died the same or next day after birth. The Foljambe Tomb. Monument in St Mary's Church Tickhill Doncaster [Map] commissioned by her husband Cecil George Savile Foljambe 1st Earl Liverpool (age 24) who had sixty monuments erected in her memory in places associated with her. Sculpted by William Calder Marshall (age 58).

Louise Blanche Howard: On 22 Feb 1842 she was born to Frederick Howard and Fanny Cavendish. On 22 Jul 1869 Cecil George Savile Foljambe 1st Earl Liverpool and she were married. On 21 Feb 1877 Cecil George Savile Foljambe 1st Earl Liverpool and Susan Louisa Cavendish Countess Liverpool were married. She was a first cousin of his first wife Louise Blanche Howard.

On 07 Oct 1876 Percy Egerton Herbert (age 54) died at The Styche, Market Drayton.

On 07 Oct 1879 Constance Harriet Amherst Lady Monck (age 36) died.

On 07 Oct 1896 William Edwardes 4th and 1st Baron Kensington (age 61) died.

On 07 Oct 1907 Henry Ignatius Dudley Ryder (age 70) died at Edgbaston, Warwickshire.

On 07 Oct 1915 Captain Charles Noel Ridley (age 30) died at St Omer having been mortally wounded on 29 Sep 1915. He was survived by his wife Daphne Bewicke and their three daughters. "The History of the Northumberland (Hussars) Yeomanry, 1819 – 1919 with Supplement to 1923" Edited by Howard Pease M.A., F.S.A. Printed by Constable & Co. Ltd. London 1924. On page 114 of the volume there is the following reference: September 30th [1915] – Most unfortunately Captain C.N. Ridley was killed, and about fourteen other ranks were wounded, whilst burying about forty men just behind "Gun Trench". He was buried at Longuenesse Souvenir Cemetery, St Omer, France.

Daphne Bewicke: In Sep 1907 Captain Charles Noel Ridley and she were married. After 1915 Hall Grant Pringle and she were married.

On 07 Oct 1927 Florence Mary Tyssen-Amherst died.

On 07 Oct 1927 Edward Guiness 1st Earl Iveagh (age 79) died. On 07 Oct 1927 His son Rupert Edward Cecil Lee Guinness 2nd Earl Iveagh (age 53) succeeded 2nd Earl Iveagh.

On 07 Oct 1928 Godfrey Harry Brydges Mundy (age 68) died.

On 07 Oct 1949 Colonel Frank Wigram Foley died.

On 07 Oct 1955 Hilda Mary Keppel (age 91) died.

On 07 Oct 1988 Christian Herbert 6th Earl of Powis (age 84) died. His second cousin George Herbert 7th Earl of Powis (age 63) succeeded 7th Earl Powis.