Biography of Adelaide Ida Curzon Howe Countess of Westmoreland 1835-1903
Paternal Family Tree: Curzon
Maternal Family Tree: Penelope Chamberlayne Lady Dashwood 1663-1735
On 19 Mar 1820 [her father] Richard William Penn Curzon Howe 1st Earl Howe (age 23) and [her mother] Harriet Georgiana Brudenell Countess Howe (age 21) were married. She the daughter of Robert Brudenell 6th Earl Cardigan (age 50) and Penelope Cooke Countess Cardigan (age 50).
On 21 Mar 1820 Assheton Curzon 1st Viscount Curzon (age 90) died. His grandson [her father] Richard William Penn Curzon Howe 1st Earl Howe (age 23) succeeded 2nd Viscount Curzon of Penn in Buckinghamshire, 6th Baronet Curzon of Kedleston in Derbyshire.
In 1835 Adelaide Ida Curzon Howe Countess of Westmoreland was born to Richard William Penn Curzon Howe 1st Earl Howe (age 38) and Harriet Georgiana Brudenell Countess Howe (age 36).
In 1835 [her grandmother] Sophia Howe 2nd Baroness Howe died. Her son [her father] Richard William Penn Curzon Howe 1st Earl Howe (age 38) succeeded 3rd Baron Howe. [her mother] Harriet Georgiana Brudenell Countess Howe (age 36) by marriage Baroness Howe.
In 1836 [her mother] Harriet Georgiana Brudenell Countess Howe (age 37) died.
On 09 Oct 1845 [her father] Richard William Penn Curzon Howe 1st Earl Howe (age 48) and [her step-mother] Anne Gore Countess Howe were married. She by marriage Countess Howe.
On 16 Jul 1857 Francis William Henry Fane 12th Earl of Westmoreland (age 31) and Adelaide Ida Curzon Howe Countess of Westmoreland (age 22) were married. She the daughter of Richard William Penn Curzon Howe 1st Earl Howe (age 60) and Harriet Georgiana Brudenell Countess Howe. He the son of John Fane 11th Earl of Westmoreland (age 73) and Priscilla Anne Wellesley-Pole Countess of Westmoreland (age 64).
On 03 Sep 1858 [her son] George Neville John Fane was born to [her husband] Francis William Henry Fane 12th Earl of Westmoreland (age 32) and Adelaide Ida Curzon Howe Countess of Westmoreland (age 23).
On 16 Aug 1859 [her son] Anthony Fane 13th Earl of Westmoreland was born to [her husband] Francis William Henry Fane 12th Earl of Westmoreland (age 33) and Adelaide Ida Curzon Howe Countess of Westmoreland (age 24).
On 16 Oct 1859 [her father-in-law] John Fane 11th Earl of Westmoreland (age 75) died. His son [her husband] Francis William Henry Fane 12th Earl of Westmoreland (age 33) succeeded 12th Earl of Westmoreland. Adelaide Ida Curzon Howe Countess of Westmoreland (age 24) by marriage Countess of Westmoreland.
On 18 Feb 1879 [her mother-in-law] Priscilla Anne Wellesley-Pole Countess of Westmoreland (age 85) died. Both were buried at the Church of St Leonard, Apethorpe [Map].
John Fane 11th Earl of Westmoreland: On 02 Feb 1784 he was born to John Fane 10th Earl of Westmoreland and Sarah Anne Child Countess of Westmoreland. On 26 Jun 1811 John Fane 11th Earl of Westmoreland and Priscilla Anne Wellesley-Pole Countess of Westmoreland were married. She the daughter of William Wellesley aka Wellesley-Pole 3rd Earl Mornington and Katherine Forbes Countess Mornington. He the son of John Fane 10th Earl of Westmoreland and Sarah Anne Child Countess of Westmoreland. On 15 Dec 1841 John Fane 10th Earl of Westmoreland died. His son John Fane 11th Earl of Westmoreland succeeded 11th Earl of Westmoreland. Priscilla Anne Wellesley-Pole Countess of Westmoreland by marriage Countess of Westmoreland.
Priscilla Anne Wellesley-Pole Countess of Westmoreland: On 13 Mar 1793 she was born to William Wellesley aka Wellesley-Pole 3rd Earl Mornington and Katherine Forbes Countess Mornington.
On 31 Jul 1860 [her son] George Neville John Fane (age 1) died. Memorial in the Church of St Leonard, Apethorpe [Map].
George Neville John Fane: On 03 Sep 1858 he was born to Francis William Henry Fane 12th Earl of Westmoreland and Adelaide Ida Curzon Howe Countess of Westmoreland.
On 03 Oct 1860 [her daughter] Grace Adelaide Fane Countess Londesborough was born to [her husband] Francis William Henry Fane 12th Earl of Westmoreland (age 34) and Adelaide Ida Curzon Howe Countess of Westmoreland (age 25).
In 1866 [her brother-in-law] Julian Henry Charles Fane (age 38) and Adine Eliza Anne Cowper (age 26) were married. She the daughter of George Augustus Frederick Cowper 6th Earl Cowper and Ann Florence Robinson Countess Cowper (age 60). He the son of John Fane 11th Earl of Westmoreland and Priscilla Anne Wellesley-Pole Countess of Westmoreland (age 72).
On 19 Apr 1870 [her brother-in-law] Julian Henry Charles Fane (age 42) died. On 20 Oct 1868 Adine Eliza Anne Cowper (age 28) died. Memorial in the Church of St Leonard, Apethorpe [Map].
Julian Henry Charles Fane: On 10 Oct 1827 he was born to John Fane 11th Earl of Westmoreland and Priscilla Anne Wellesley-Pole Countess of Westmoreland. In 1866 Julian Henry Charles Fane and Adine Eliza Anne Cowper were married. She the daughter of George Augustus Frederick Cowper 6th Earl Cowper and Ann Florence Robinson Countess Cowper. He the son of John Fane 11th Earl of Westmoreland and Priscilla Anne Wellesley-Pole Countess of Westmoreland.
Adine Eliza Anne Cowper: In 1840 she was born to George Augustus Frederick Cowper 6th Earl Cowper and Ann Florence Robinson Countess Cowper.
On 12 May 1870 [her father] Richard William Penn Curzon Howe 1st Earl Howe (age 73) died. On 12 May 1870 His son [her brother] George Augustus Frederick Louis Curzon Howe 2nd Earl Howe (age 49) succeeded 2nd Earl Howe, 3rd Viscount Curzon of Penn in Buckinghamshire, 7th Baronet Curzon of Kedleston in Derbyshire.
On 11 Aug 1887 [her son-in-law] William Henry Francis Denison 2nd Earl Londesborough (age 23) and [her daughter] Grace Adelaide Fane Countess Londesborough (age 26) were married. She the daughter of Francis William Henry Fane 12th Earl of Westmoreland (age 61) and Adelaide Ida Curzon Howe Countess of Westmoreland (age 52). He the son of William Henry Forester Denison 1st Earl Londesborough (age 53) and Edith Somerset Countess Londesborough (age 49). They were third cousins.
On 03 Aug 1891 [her husband] Francis William Henry Fane 12th Earl of Westmoreland (age 65) died. His son [her son] Anthony Fane 13th Earl of Westmoreland (age 31) succeeded 13th Earl of Westmoreland.
In 1903 Adelaide Ida Curzon Howe Countess of Westmoreland (age 68) died.
Memorial in the Church of St Leonard, Apethorpe [Map] and graves in churchyard.
Anthony Fane 13th Earl of Westmoreland: On 16 Aug 1859 he was born to Francis William Henry Fane 12th Earl of Westmoreland and Adelaide Ida Curzon Howe Countess of Westmoreland. On 28 May 1892 Anthony Fane 13th Earl of Westmoreland and Sybil Mary St Clair-Erskine Countess of Westmorland were married. She by marriage Countess of Westmoreland. He the son of Francis William Henry Fane 12th Earl of Westmoreland and Adelaide Ida Curzon Howe Countess of Westmoreland. On 09 Jun 1922 Anthony Fane 13th Earl of Westmoreland died. His son Vere Fane 14th Earl of Westmoreland succeeded 14th Earl of Westmoreland.
On 28 May 1892 [her son] Anthony Fane 13th Earl of Westmoreland (age 32) and [her daughter-in-law] Sybil Mary St Clair-Erskine Countess of Westmorland (age 20) were married. She by marriage Countess of Westmoreland. He the son of Francis William Henry Fane 12th Earl of Westmoreland and Adelaide Ida Curzon Howe Countess of Westmoreland (age 57).
The Scarlet Tree by Osbert Sitwell Chapter 2. In general, each Christmas [at Blankney Hall] the representatives of the older generation were the same, invariably numbering in their company my grandmother [Edith Somerset Countess Londesborough (age 69)], her brother-in-law [Arthur Walsh 2nd Baron Ormathwaite (age 80)] and sister [Katherine Somerset Baroness Ormathwaite (age 73)]. Lord and Lady Ormathwaite, and Sir Nigel (age 77) and Lady [her sister] Emily Kingscote (age 72). Lord Ormathwaite was even then over eighty — he lived to be ninety-three. Both he and his wife were of a deeply religious nature (it was very noticeable how much more devout were the old than their sons and daughters), and one of the favourite amusements of the children, I remember, was to hide in the broad passage outside the bedroom of this old couple, and listen to the vehement recitation of their lengthy and extremely personal prayers. Another frequent Christmas visitor, until her death in 1903, was Adza Lady Westmorland, who belonged to the same epoch, being the mother of my aunt, and a sister to the 8th Duchess of Beaufort and Lady Emily Kingscote (age 72). She was a godchild of Queen Adelaide, as was her nephew the Duke of Beaufort (age 60)1. Adza Lady Westmorland, indeed, came of a family much devoted to Queen Adelaide, since she was the daughter of that Lord Howe — the 1st Earl Howe — whose singular conduct at the Royal Pavilion at Brighton, when King William IV was living there, had roused the malicious interest of Charles Greville. Lord Howe, a handsome young man "with a delightful wife", hovered dotingly round Queen Adelaide whenever she was in the room, remained gazing at her with eyes full of love and admiration, and behaved altogether, the diarist relates, as though "a boy in love with this frightful spotted majesty" .... Adza Lady Westmorland, as I remember her, was a very old lady in a Bath-chair, who wore a black dress and a large, shady black hat. But she still retained her wonderfully exquisite manners and her great charm, for both of which she had been celebrated. In her time, she had been responsible for several small social innovations for women, such as wearing tweeds and smoking cigarettes.
As for the young, they were for the most part the same as those we saw a few years before at Scarborough: my cousins, Raincliffe — Frank — , and Hugo and Irene Denison, Veronica and Christopher Codrington, Enid Fane (age 13) and her brother, Burghersh (age 14) — who was my particular friend and companion at that time, in the same way that Victor was my enemy elect — , Marigold Forbes, and other young relatives. Entertainments were provided for them — and, as we shall see in a moment, by them — with regularity. Presents were I do not know how much the old or the young plentiful .... enjoyed the parties — scarcely as much as the members of the ruling generation, I should say ; to the old, certainly, these Christmas festivities brought a feeling of sadness, of deposition.... Among the children, I am sure that the child who felt least happy, an alien among her nearest grown-up relations, was my sister. Acutely sensitive, and with her imagination perhaps almost unduly developed by the neglect and sadness of her childhood since she was five, she could find no comfort under these tents. She loved music, it was true — indeed, where music is, there, always, is her home but the music of this house meant little to her, and the formal conversation between children and grown-ups, even if they were trying to be kind, frightened and bored her ; while she did not care for the machinery of the life here ; the continual killings seemed to her to be cruel, even insane. She ought to have asked to go out with the guns, even if she herself did not shoot ; she might at least have attended a meet. And, if anything, my father's inclination to nag at her on the one hand, my mother's, to fall into ungovernable, singularly terrifying rages with her, on the other, because of her non-conformity, seemed stronger when there were people, as here, to feed the fires of their discontent, and other children to set a standard by which to measure her attainments. "Dearest, you ought to make her like killing rabbits," one could hear the fun brigade urging on my mother. But while my father was angry with his daughter for failing to comply with another standard — his for not having a du-Maurier profile, a liking for "lawn-tennis" or being able to sing or play the zither after dinner (it did not affect him that his wife's relations would have been very angry if she had attempted to play the zither at them), he was also disappointed on another score. She seemed far less interested than I was — or even Sacheverell who was only six or seven — in his stories about the Black Death (a subject he had been "reading up" in the British Museum), and she seemed to have no natural feeling for John The Victorians, Stuart Mill's Principles of Political Economy .... I think, appreciated Edith more than did the Edwardians. But Irene was the particular focus for grown-up attention and affection, not bccausc she was the only daughter of the house, but because the delicate loveliness of her appearance, with her fine skin and huge, dark-blue eyes, and a certain kind serenity, unusual in a child of her age, made everyone want to spoil her. But it was in vain she remained absolutely unspoilt, gentle, amiable, full of kindly fccling towards the whole world.
Note 1. Henry Adelbert Wellington FitzRoy, 9th Duke of Beaufort (age 60) (b. 1847), was named Adelbert after Queen Adelaide, and Wellington after the Iron Duke, his godfather and his father’s great-uncle. He died in 1920. His late Royal Highness the Duke Connaught (1850—1942) was one of the two last surviving godsons of the Duke of Wellington, the other and ultimate being the 4th Marquess of Ormonde (age 58) ( 1849-1943).
[her daughter] Margaret Mary Fane was born to Francis William Henry Fane 12th Earl of Westmoreland and Adelaide Ida Curzon Howe Countess of Westmoreland.
Adeline Horsey Recollections. After my marriage [her uncle] Lord Cardigan and I always went to the different meetings, and generally met all our friends; among others, Lord and Baroness Westmorland, Lord and Baroness Hastings, the [her sister] Duchess of Beaufort, Willie Craven, George Bruce, and Prince Batthyany. Newmarket was quite a charming rendezvous of society then, so different from the mixed crowd that goes there nowadays, and it could be easily re-christened "Jewmarket", for the Chosen are everywhere.
Kings Wessex: Great x 22 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 19 Grand Daughter of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 25 Grand Daughter of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 20 Grand Daughter of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings England: Great x 10 Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Kings Scotland: Great x 18 Grand Daughter of William "Lion" I King Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 19 Grand Daughter of Louis VII King Franks
Kings France: Great x 13 Grand Daughter of Charles "Beloved Mad" VI King France
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Curzon 1st Baronet 6 x Great Grand Son of King Henry IV of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Nathaniel Curzon 2nd Baronet 7 x Great Grand Son of King Henry IV of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Patience Crewe Baroness Curzon
Great x 2 Grandfather: Nathaniel Curzon 4th Baronet 8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry IV of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Penn
Great x 3 Grandmother: Sarah Penn Baroness Curzon
Great x 1 Grandfather: Assheton Curzon 1st Viscount Curzon 9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry IV of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Ralph Assheton 1st Baronet
Great x 3 Grandfather: Ralph Assheton 2nd Baronet
Great x 2 Grandmother: Mary Assheton Baroness Curzon 15 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Vavasour 13 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Vavasour Lady Assheton 14 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
GrandFather: Penn Curzon 10 x Great Grand Son of King Henry IV of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Hanmer
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Hanmer
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Hanmer
Great x 1 Grandmother: Esther Hanmer Baroness Curzon
Father: Richard William Penn Curzon Howe 1st Earl Howe 11 x Great Grand Son of King Henry IV of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Grobham Howe
Great x 3 Grandfather: Scrope Howe 1st Viscount Howe 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Annabella Scrope 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Emanuel Howe 2nd Viscount Howe 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Alington 1st Baron Alington 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Juliana Alington Viscountess Howe 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Tollemache Baroness Alington 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Richard Howe 1st Earl Howe 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Johan Adolf Von Kielmansegg
Great x 2 Grandmother: Sophia Von Keilmansegg Viscountess Howe 15 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Ernest Augustus Hanover Elector Brunswick-Lüneburg 13 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Sophia Charlotte Hanover Countess of Darlington and Leinster 14 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
GrandMother: Sophia Howe 2nd Baroness Howe 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Adelaide Ida Curzon Howe Countess of Westmoreland 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Brudenell 2nd Earl Cardigan 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Francis Brudenell 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anna Savage Countess Cardigan 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: George Brudenell 3rd Earl Cardigan 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Savile 1st Earl of Sussex 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Frances Savile 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Villiers Countess Sussex 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Robert Brudenell 7 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Bruce 2nd Earl Elgin 1st Earl Ailesbury 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Bruce 3rd Earl Elgin 2nd Earl Ailesbury 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Bruce 3rd Countess Cardigan 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Seymour 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Seymour Countess Elgin and Ailesbury 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Capell Duchess Beaufort 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
GrandFather: Robert Brudenell 6th Earl Cardigan 8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Cecil Bisshopp 4th Baronet 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Cecil Bisshopp 5th Baronet 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Cecil Bisshopp 6th Baronet 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Anne Bisshopp 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Boscawen
Great x 3 Grandfather: Hugh Boscawen 1st Viscount Falmouth 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Jael Godolphin 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Boscawen Lady Bisshopp 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Charles Godfrey
Great x 3 Grandmother: Charlotte Godfrey Viscountess Falmouth 15 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Arabella Churchill 14 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Mother: Harriet Georgiana Brudenell Countess Howe 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Cooke of Cranbrooke
Great x 3 Grandfather: George Cooke of Harefield
Great x 2 Grandfather: George Cooke
Great x 1 Grandfather: George John Cooke 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Twysden 3rd Baronet 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Twysden 4th Baronet 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Katherine Twysden 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Francis Wythens
Great x 3 Grandmother: Catherine Wythens Lady Twysden
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Taylor
GrandMother: Penelope Cooke Countess Cardigan 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Bowyer 2nd Baronet
Great x 3 Grandfather: Cecil Bowyer 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Frances Cecil 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Bowyer 3rd Baronet 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Penelope Bowyer of Harefield Park, London 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Stonhouse 2nd Baronet
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Stonhouse 3rd Baronet
Great x 4 Grandmother: Martha Briggs
Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Stonhouse
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Dashwood 1st Baronet
Great x 3 Grandmother: Penelope Dashwood
Great x 4 Grandmother: Penelope Chamberlayne Lady Dashwood