Lady Elizabeth Churchill (1688-1714)
Born 15 March 1688
Died 22 March 1714 (smallpox)
Buried Little Gaddesden, Herts.
Married 9 February 1703
Scroop Egerton, 4th Earl & 1st Duke of Bridgwater, son of
John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgwater and Lady Jane Paulet
Born 11 August 1681
Died 11 January 1745
She was about fifteen years old when, in February 1703, she married
the Earl of Bridgwater but her happiness was overshadowed later in the
same month when her only brother, the Marquess of Blandford, died of smallpox
aged only seventeen. Elizabeth became the mother of a son and daughter
but then also died of smallpox on 22 March 1714, aged twenty-six, and was
buried at Little Gaddesden. In 1720 her husband became a Duke and, two
years after that, married Lady Rachael Russell, daughter of the Duke of
Bedford.
Source: Leo van de Pas |
