Biography of Mary Tufton Countess Gower -1785
Paternal Family Tree: Tufton
Maternal Family Tree: Eleanor Gifford 1575
Mary Tufton Countess Gower was born to Thomas Tufton 6th Earl of Thanet and Catherine Cavendish Countess Isle Thanet.
On 08 Mar 1684 [her uncle] Richard Tufton 5th Earl of Thanet (age 43) died. His brother [her father] Thomas Tufton 6th Earl of Thanet (age 39) succeeded 6th Earl of Thanet, 6th Baron Tufton, 18th Baron de Clifford, 7th Baronet Tufton of Hothfield.
On 14 Aug 1684 [her father] Thomas Tufton 6th Earl of Thanet (age 39) and [her mother] Catherine Cavendish Countess Isle Thanet (age 19) were married. She by marriage Countess of Thanet. The difference in their ages was 20 years. She the daughter of Henry Cavendish 2nd Duke Newcastle upon Tyne (age 54) and Frances Pierrepont Duchess Newcastle upon Tyne (age 53). He the son of John Tufton 2nd Earl of Thanet and Margaret Sackville Countess Isle Thanet.
On 31 Aug 1709 John Leveson-Gower 1st Baron Gower (age 34) died. His son [her future husband] John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower (age 15) succeeded 2nd Baron Gower, 6th Baronet Gower of Stittenham in Yorkshire.
On 13 Mar 1712 [her future husband] John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower (age 17) and Evelyn Pierrepont Baroness Gower (age 21) were married. She by marriage Baroness Gower. She the daughter of Evelyn Pierrepont 1st Duke Kingston upon Hull (age 57) and Mary Fielding Countess Kingston upon Hull. They were fourth cousins.
On 20 Apr 1712 [her mother] Catherine Cavendish Countess Isle Thanet (age 47) died.
On 20 Feb 1717 John Campbell 3rd Earl Breadalbaine and Holland (age 20) and [her future sister-in-law] Amabel Grey (age 19) were married. She the daughter of Henry Grey 1st Duke Kent (age 46) and Jemima Crew Marchioness Kent (age 42). He the son of John Campbell 2nd Earl Breadalbaine and Holland (age 54) and Henrietta Villiers Countess Breadalbaine and Holland.
On 17 Feb 1718 Anthony Grey 1453-1490 (age 22) and Mary Tufton Countess Gower were married. She the daughter of Thomas Tufton 6th Earl of Thanet (age 73) and Catherine Cavendish Countess Isle Thanet. He the son of Henry Grey 1st Duke Kent (age 47) and Jemima Crew Marchioness Kent (age 43).
On 21 Jul 1723 [her husband] Anthony Grey 1453-1490 (age 28) died by choking on an ear of barley the beard of which stuck in his throat. His niece Jemima Campbell 2nd Marchioness Grey succeeded 4th Baroness Lucas of Crudwell.
On 02 Mar 1726 [her former sister-in-law] Amabel Grey (age 28) died.
On 09 Jan 1727 Charles Cavendish (age 22) and [her former sister-in-law] Anne Grey were married. She the daughter of Henry Grey 1st Duke Kent (age 56) and Jemima Crew Marchioness Kent (age 52). He the son of William Cavendish 2nd Duke Devonshire (age 55) and Rachel Russell Duchess Devonshire.
On 30 Jul 1729 [her father] Thomas Tufton 6th Earl of Thanet (age 84) died. Baron de Clifford became abeyant. His nephew Sackville Tufton 7th Earl of Thanet (age 41) succeeded 7th Earl of Thanet, 7th Baron Tufton, 8th Baronet Tufton of Hothfield. Mary Savile Countess Isle Thanet by marriage Countess of Thanet.
In 1733 [her former brother-in-law] George Grey (age 1) died.
On 20 Sep 1733 [her former sister-in-law] Anne Grey died.
On 31 Oct 1733 [her future husband] John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower (age 39) and Penelope Stonhouse Baroness Gower (age 28) were married. She by marriage Baroness Gower.
On 16 May 1736 John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower (age 41) and Mary Tufton Countess Gower were married. She by marriage Baroness Gower. She the daughter of Thomas Tufton 6th Earl of Thanet and Catherine Cavendish Countess Isle Thanet. They were fourth cousins.
In 1737 [her step-daughter] Diana Leveson-Gower (age 9) died.
On 04 Apr 1739 [her step-son] William Leveson-Gower (age 23) died.
On 11 Jul 1740 [her son] John Leveson-Gower was born to [her husband] John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower (age 45) and Mary Tufton Countess Gower.
In 1744 John Sackville (age 30) and [her step-daughter] Frances Leveson-Gower (age 23) were married. She had given birth to their child before the marriage. She the daughter of John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower (age 49) and Evelyn Pierrepont Baroness Gower. He the son of Lionel Cranfield Sackville 1st Duke Dorset (age 55) and Elizabeth Colyear Duchess Dorset (age 55). They were half third cousins.
In 1744 [her step-son] Granville Leveson-Gower 1st Marquess Stafford (age 22) and Elizabeth Fazakerley were married. He the son of John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower (age 49) and Evelyn Pierrepont Baroness Gower.
On 29 Jun 1744 John Fitzpatrick 1st Earl Upper Ossory (age 25) and [her step-daughter] Evelyn Leveson-Gower Countess Upper Ossory (age 19) were married. She by marriage Baroness Gowran of Bowran in County Kilkenny. She the daughter of John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower (age 49) and Evelyn Pierrepont Baroness Gower.
On 08 Jul 1746 [her husband] John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower (age 51) was created 1st Earl Gower. Mary Tufton Countess Gower by marriage Countess Gower.
In 1748 [her step-son] Granville Leveson-Gower 1st Marquess Stafford (age 26) and Louisa Egerton Countess Gower (age 24) were married. She the daughter of Scroop Egerton 1st Duke Bridgewater and Rachel Russell Duchess Bridgewater (age 41). He the son of John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower (age 53) and Evelyn Pierrepont Baroness Gower.
On 21 Nov 1748 Bishop John Egerton (age 26) and [her former sister-in-law] Anne Sophia Grey were married. She the daughter of Henry Grey 1st Duke Kent and Sophia Bentinck Duchess Kent. He the son of Bishop Henry Egerton and Elizabeth Adriana Bentinck (age 45). They were first cousins.
On 07 May 1751 John Waldegrave 3rd Earl Waldegrave (age 33) and [her step-daughter] Elizabeth Leveson-Gower Countess Waldegrave (age 27) were married. She the daughter of John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower (age 56) and Evelyn Pierrepont Baroness Gower. He the son of James Waldegrave 1st Earl Waldegrave and Mary Webb Countess Waldegrave. He a great grandson of King James II of England Scotland and Ireland.
Letters of Horace Walpole. 23 Jun 1752. Arlington Street. To The Hon H S Conway (age 31).
By a letter that I received from my Lady Ailesbury (age 31) two days ago, I flatter myself I shall not have occasion to write to you any more; yet I shall certainly see you with less pleasure than ever, as our meeting is to be attended with a resignation of my little charge (age 3).316 She is vastly well, and I think you will find her grown fat. I am husband enough to mind her beauty no longer, and perhaps you will say husband enough too, in pretending that my love is converted into friendship; but I shall tell you some stories at Park-place of her understanding that will please you, I trust, as much as they have done me.
My Lady Ailesbury (age 31) says I must send her news, and the whole history of Mr. Seymour (age 22) and Lady Di. Egerton (age 21), and their quarrel, and all that is said on both sides. I can easily tell her all that is said on one side, Mr. Seymour's, who says, the only answer he has ever been able to get from the Duchess or Mr. Lyttelton was, that Di. has her caprices. The reasons she gives, and gave him, were, the badness of his temper and imperiousness of his letters; that he scolded her for the overfondness of her epistles, and was even so unsentimental as to talk of desiring to make her happy, instead of being made so by her. He is gone abroad, in despair, and with an additional circumstance, which would be very uncomfortable to any thing but a true lover; his father refuses to resettle the estate on him, the entail of which was cut off by mutual consent, to make way for the settlements on the marriage.
The Speaker told me t'other day, that he had received a letter from Lord Hyde, which confirms what Mr. Churchill writes me, the distress and poverty of France and the greatness of their divisions. Yet the King's expenses are incredible; Madame de Pompadour (age 30) is continually busied in finding out new journeys and diversions to keep him from falling into the hands of the clergy. The last party of pleasure she made for him, was a stag-hunting; the stag was a man in a skin and horns, worried by twelve men dressed like bloodhounds! I have read of Basilowitz, a Czar of Muscovy, who improved on such a hunt, and had a man in a bearskin worried by real dogs; a more kingly entertainment!
I shall make out a sad Journal of other news; yet I will be like any gazette, and scrape together all the births, deaths, and marriages in the parish. Lady Hartington (age 32) and Lady Rachel Walpole (age 25) are brought to bed of sons; Lord Burlington (age 58) and [her husband] Lord Gower (age 57) have had new attacks of palsies: Lord Falkland (age 45) is to marry the Southwark Lady Suffolk;317 and Mr. Watson (age 23), Miss Grace Pelham (age 17). Lady Coventry (age 19) has miscarried of one or two children, and is going on with one or two more, and is gone to France to-day. Lady Townshend (age 44) and Lady Caroline Petersham (age 30) have had their anniversary quarrel, and the Duchess of Devonshire (age 53) has had her secular assembly, which she keeps once in fifty years: she was more delightfully vulgar at it than you can imagine; complained of the wet night, and how the men would dirty the rooms with their shoes; called out at supper to the Duke (age 53), "Good God! my lord, don't cut the ham, nobody will eat any!" and relating her private menage to Mr. Obnir, she said, "When there's only my lord and I, besides a pudding we have always a dish of Yeast!" I am ashamed to send you such nonsense, or to tell you how the good women at Hampton Court are scandalized at Princess Emily's (age 41) coming to chapel last Sunday in riding-clothes with a dog under her arm; but I am bid to send news: what can we do -,it such a dead time of year? I must conclude, as my Lady Gower did very well t'other day in a letter into the country, "Since the two Misses318 were hanged, and the two Misses319 were married, there is nothing at all talked of." Adieu! My best compliments and my wife's to your two ladies.
Note 315. Now first published.
Note 316. Their daughter, Ann Seymour Conway (age 3).
Note 317. Sarah, Duchess-dowager of Suffolk, daughter of Thomas Unwen, Esq. of Southwark.-E.
Note 318. Miss Blandy and Miss Jefferies.
Note 319. The Gunnings. [Maria Gunning Countess Coventry (age 19) and Elizabeth Gunning Duchess Hamilton and Argyll (age 18)]
On 19 Oct 1753 [her step-son] Richard Leveson-Gower (age 27) died.
On 25 Dec 1754 [her husband] John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower (age 60) died. His son [her step-son] Granville Leveson-Gower 1st Marquess Stafford (age 33) succeeded 2nd Earl Gower, 3rd Baron Gower, 7th Baronet Gower of Stittenham in Yorkshire. Louisa Egerton Countess Gower (age 31) by marriage Countess Gower.
In 1756 [her former brother-in-law] William Leveson-Gower died.
Before Aug 1760 Richard Vernon (age 34) and [her former step-daughter] Evelyn Leveson-Gower Countess Upper Ossory (age 35) were married. She the daughter of John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower and Evelyn Pierrepont Baroness Gower.
On 14 Apr 1763 [her former step-daughter] Evelyn Leveson-Gower Countess Upper Ossory (age 38) died.
In 1768 [her former step-son] Granville Leveson-Gower 1st Marquess Stafford (age 46) and Susanna Stewart Marchioness Stafford were married. She by marriage Countess Gower. She the daughter of Alexander Stewart 6th Earl Galloway (age 74) and Catherine Cochrane Countess Galloway (age 59). He the son of John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower and Evelyn Pierrepont Baroness Gower.
On 05 Jul 1773 [her son] John Leveson-Gower (age 32) and [her daughter-in-law] Frances Boscawen (age 27) were married. He the son of John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower and Mary Tufton Countess Gower.
On 24 Mar 1780 [her former sister-in-law] Anne Sophia Grey died.
On 04 Aug 1782 [her former brother-in-law] Baptist Leveson-Gower (age 81) died.
On 28 Apr 1784 [her former step-daughter] Elizabeth Leveson-Gower Countess Waldegrave (age 60) died.
On 12 Feb 1785 Mary Tufton Countess Gower died.
William Leveson-Gower and Anne Grosvenor were married.
Kings Wessex: Great x 19 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 15 Grand Daughter of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 21 Grand Daughter of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 16 Grand Daughter of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings England: Great x 7 Grand Daughter of King Edward IV of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 14 Grand Daughter of William "Lion" I King Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 15 Grand Daughter of Louis VII King Franks
Kings France: Great x 12 Grand Daughter of Philip "Bold" III King France
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Tufton 1st Baronet
Great x 1 Grandfather: Nicholas Tufton 1st Earl of Thanet 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Browne 8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Humphrey Browne 9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Christian Browne Lady Tufton 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Hussey 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford 9 x Great Grand Son of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Hussey 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Grey Baroness Hussey Sleaford 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
GrandFather: John Tufton 2nd Earl of Thanet 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Cecil
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Cecil 1st Baron Burghley
Great x 4 Grandmother: Jane Heckington
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Cecil 1st Earl Exeter
Great x 4 Grandfather: Peter Cheke
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Cheke
Great x 1 Grandmother: Frances Cecil Countess Isle Thanet 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Neville 3rd Baron Latimer 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Neville 4th Baron Latimer of Snape 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Dorothy de Vere 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Dorothy Neville Countess Exeter 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Somerset 2nd Earl of Worcester 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Lucy Somerset Baroness Latimer Snape 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Browne Countess of Worcester 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Father: Thomas Tufton 6th Earl of Thanet 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Sackville 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Sackville 1st Earl Dorset 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Winifred Brydges Marchioness Winchester
Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Sackville 2nd Earl Dorset 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Baker
Great x 3 Grandmother: Cicely Baker Countess Dorset
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Dinley
Great x 1 Grandfather: Richard Sackville 3rd Earl Dorset 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Howard 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Howard 4th Duke of Norfolk 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Frances Vere Countess of Surrey 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Margaret Howard 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Audley 1st Baron Audley Walden
Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Audley Duchess Norfolk 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Grey Baroness Audley 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
GrandMother: Margaret Sackville Countess Isle Thanet 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Clifford 1st Earl of Cumberland 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Clifford 2nd Earl of Cumberland 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Percy Baroness Clifford 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: George Clifford 3rd Earl of Cumberland 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Dacre 3rd Baron Dacre Gilsland 7th Baron Greystoke 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Dacre Countess Cumberland 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Talbot Baroness Dacre Gilsland 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Anne Clifford Countess Dorset and Pembroke 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Russell 1st Earl Bedford
Great x 3 Grandfather: Francis Russell 2nd Earl Bedford
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Sapcote Countess Bedford
Great x 2 Grandmother: Margaret Russell Countess Cumberland 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John St John 9 x Great Grand Son of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret St John Countess Bedford 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Waldegrave 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King John "Lackland" of England
Mary Tufton Countess Gower 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward IV of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Cavendish 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Cavendish 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Alice Smith
Great x 2 Grandfather: Charles Cavendish 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Hardwick 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Bess of Hardwick Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Leeke
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Cavendish 1st Duke Newcastle upon Tyne 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward IV of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Ogle 5th Baron Ogle Great Grand Son of King Edward IV of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Cuthbert Ogle 7th Baron Ogle 2 x Great Grand Son of King Edward IV of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Catherine Ogle 8th Baroness Ogle 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward IV of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Reginald Carnaby
Great x 3 Grandmother: Catherine Carnaby Baroness Ogle 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Dorothy Forster 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
GrandFather: Henry Cavendish 2nd Duke Newcastle upon Tyne 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward IV of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Bassett 12 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Bassett 13 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Bassett 11 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Anthony Fitzherbert 9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Fitzherbert 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Maud aka Matilda Cotton
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Bassett Countess Newcastle upon Tyne 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Mother: Catherine Cavendish Countess Isle Thanet 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward IV of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Pierrepont 9 x Great Grand Son of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Pierrepont 10 x Great Grand Son of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Winifred Thwaites
Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Pierrepont 1st Earl Kingston 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Cavendish 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Frances Cavendish 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Bess of Hardwick Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Pierrepont of Thoresby 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Talbot 6th Earl of Shrewsbury 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Talbot 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Gertrude Manners Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Gertrude Talbot Baroness Pierrepont Holme Pierrepoint 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Rayner
GrandMother: Frances Pierrepont Duchess Newcastle upon Tyne 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Harries of Cruckton in Shropshire
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Harries aka Harris 1st Baronet
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Prowde of Sutton
Great x 3 Grandmother: Eleanor Prowde
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Harries aka Harris
Great x 3 Grandfather: Roger Gifford
Great x 2 Grandmother: Eleanor Gifford