Mary Wyndham Fox (1792-1842)
daughter of George O'Brien Wyndham, 3rd
Earl of Egremont and Elizabeth Fox, Mrs. Crole
Born 1792
Died 3 December 1842 London, Portland Place
Married 18 October 1819 St.George Hanover Square
George FitzClarence, 1st Earl of Muenster
Born 16 January 1794
Died 20 March 1842 London (shot himself)
Buried Hampton Church
Mary, the eldest daughter of Mrs. Crole and Lord Egremont, was brought
up in her father's household at Petworth with the children of Elizabeth
Ilive. This led to her being thought to be the daughter of Elizabeth Ilive,
an error repeated in the "Complete Peerage". Lord Egremont's settlement
and the entry of her marriage in the register of St. George Hanover Square,
where she is called Mary Wyndham Fox, make it clear that she was the daughter
of Elizabeth Fox.
On 18 October 1819 she married George FitzClarence, later created Earl
of Munster, the eldest son of the future King William IV and Mrs. Jordan,
and they had four sons and three daughters.
Her husband had always been an unhappy character; his resentment that
his irregular birth had denied him his true rights had been exacerbated,
according to Greville, by "the domestic unhappiness of a dawdling, ill-conditioned,
vexatious wife". He had been supported financially to a large extend by
his father-in-law Lord Egremont who seems to have felt a special affection
for Mary.
On 20 March 1842 the Earl of Munster committed suicide and Mary died
soon after her husband, on 3 December 1842 at the age of 50 and was buried
with him in the nave of Hampton church
Source: Leo van de Pas.
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