Lady Amelia Anne Hobart (1772-1829)
daughter of John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire
and Caroline Conolly
Born 20 February 1772
Died 12 February 1829 London, St.James's Sq.
Married 9 June 1794 St.George's, Hanover Sq.
Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry
Born 18 June 1769 Dublin
Died 12 August 1822 North Cray, Kent (suicide)
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Aged twenty-two, she married Viscount Castlereagh, the future 2nd Marquess
of Londonderry. The marriage between the beautiful but slightly eccentric
Lady Amelia and the famous foreign secretary remained childless. In 1813
she accompanied her husband when, as Envoy, he went on a special mission
to Russia. In 1814 she also went
with him to the Congress at Vienna where she was sighted, at one of
the great festivities, wearing her husband's Garter, set in diamonds, as
a tiara. In 1822, aged fifty-three, due to the stress of work, her husband
committed suicide. In the "Journal" of Count Rudolf Apponyi, covering the
years from 1826 till 1830 she was described "as so rude when she means
to be polite that one wonders what she would be if she meant to be rude".
On 12 February 1829, aged nearly fifty-seven, she died at St.James's Square
and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
Source: Leo van de Pas |
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