Chronicle of Abbot Ralph of Coggeshall
The Chronicle of Abbot Ralph of Coggeshall (Chronicon Anglicanum) is an indispensable medieval history that brings to life centuries of English and European affairs through the eyes of a learned Cistercian monk. Ralph of Coggeshall, abbot of the Abbey of Coggeshall in Essex in the early 13th century, continued and expanded his community’s chronicle, documenting events from the Norman Conquest of 1066 into the tumultuous reign of King Henry III. Blending eyewitness testimony, careful compilation, and the monastic commitment to record-keeping, this chronicle offers a rare narrative of political intrigue, royal power struggles, and social upheaval in England and beyond. Ralph’s work captures the reigns of pivotal figures such as Richard I and King John, providing invaluable insights into their characters, decisions, and the forces that shaped medieval rule. More than a simple annal, Chronicon Anglicanum conveys the texture of medieval life and governance, making it a rich source for scholars and readers fascinated by English history, monastic authorship, and the shaping of the medieval world.
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Paternal Family Tree: Anjou aka Plantagenet
Maternal Family Tree: Anne Hill Countess Mornington 1742-1831
On 25th July 1814 [her father] Henry Somerset 7th Duke Beaufort [aged 22] and [her aunt] Georgiana Frederica Fitzroy [aged 21] were married at Upper Brook Street. Following her death in 1821 he would marry her younger half-sister [her mother] Emily Frances Smith Duchess Beaufort [aged 14]. An example of a man marrying two sisters, albeit in this case half-sisters. He the son of [her grandfather] Henry Charles Somerset 6th Duke Beaufort [aged 47] and [her grandmother] Charlotte Sophia Leveson-Gower Duchess Beaufort [aged 43]. They were fourth cousins. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.
On 29th June 1822 [her father] Henry Somerset 7th Duke Beaufort [aged 30] and Emily Frances Smith Duchess Beaufort [aged 22] were married. She being the younger half-sister of his first wife Georgiana Frederica Fitzroy both of whom's mother was Anne Wellesley [aged 54] sister of Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke Wellington [aged 53]. An example of a man marrying two sisters, albeit in this case half-sisters. He the son of Henry Charles Somerset 6th Duke Beaufort [aged 55] and Charlotte Sophia Leveson-Gower Duchess Beaufort [aged 51].
On 1st June 1838 Edith Somerset Countess Londesborough was born to Henry Somerset 7th Duke Beaufort [aged 46] and Emily Frances Smith Duchess Beaufort [aged 38].
On 3rd July 1845 [her brother] Henry Charles Fitzroy Somerset 8th Duke Beaufort [aged 21] and [her sister-in-law] Georgiana Charlotte Curzon Howe Duchess Beaufort [aged 20] were married. She the daughter of Richard William Penn Curzon Howe 1st Earl Howe [aged 48] and Harriet Georgiana Brudenell Countess Howe. He the son of [her father] Henry Somerset 7th Duke Beaufort [aged 53] and [her mother] Emily Frances Smith Duchess Beaufort [aged 45]. They were fourth cousins.
On 20th July 1848 [her brother-in-law] George Hay-Drummond 12th Earl Kinnoull [aged 21] and [her sister] Emily Blanche Charlotte Somerset Countess Kinnoul [aged 20] were married. She the daughter of [her father] Henry Somerset 7th Duke Beaufort [aged 56] and [her mother] Emily Frances Smith Duchess Beaufort [aged 48]. He the son of Thomas Hay-Drummond 11th Earl Kinnoull [aged 63] and Louisa Burton Rowley Countess Kinnoul.
On 17th November 1853 [her father] Henry Somerset 7th Duke Beaufort [aged 61] died. His son [her brother] Henry [aged 29] succeeded 8th Duke Beaufort, 10th Marquess Worcester, 14th Earl Worcester, 16th Baron Herbert of Raglan, 8th Baron Botetort. [her sister-in-law] Georgiana Charlotte Curzon Howe Duchess Beaufort [aged 28] by marriage Duchess Beaufort.
On 20th July 1858 [her brother-in-law] Arthur Walsh 2nd Baron Ormathwaite [aged 31] and [her sister] Katherine Somerset Baroness Ormathwaite [aged 23] were married. She the daughter of [her father] Henry Somerset 7th Duke Beaufort and [her mother] Emily Frances Smith Duchess Beaufort [aged 58]. They were fifth cousins.
1860. Camille Silvy. Photograph of Edith Somerset Countess Londesborough [aged 21]. [1059/216]
On 15th January 1860 Albert Conygham aka Denison 1st Baron Londesborough [aged 54] died. His son [her future husband] William [aged 25] succeeded 2nd Baron Londesborough of Londesborough in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
In 1863 William Henry Forester Denison 1st Earl Londesborough [aged 28] and Edith Somerset Countess Londesborough [aged 24] were married. She by marriage Baroness Londesborough of Londesborough in the East Riding of Yorkshire. She the daughter of Henry Somerset 7th Duke Beaufort and Emily Frances Smith Duchess Beaufort [aged 62]. They were third cousins.
On 19th June 1864 [her son] William Henry Francis Denison 2nd Earl Londesborough was born to [her husband] William Henry Forester Denison 1st Earl Londesborough [aged 30] and Edith Somerset Countess Londesborough [aged 26]. He married 11th August 1887 his third cousin Grace Adelaide Fane Countess Londesborough, daughter of Francis William Henry Fane 12th Earl of Westmoreland and Adelaide Ida Curzon Howe Countess of Westmoreland, and had issue.
Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke
Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson.
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After 1865 [her daughter] Edith Henrietta Sybil Denison Lady Codrington was born to [her husband] William Henry Forester Denison 1st Earl Londesborough [aged 30] and Edith Somerset Countess Londesborough [aged 26]. She married 3rd February 1887 her half first cousin Gerald William Henry Codrington 1st Baronet and had issue.
On 18th February 1866 Thomas Hay-Drummond 11th Earl Kinnoull [aged 80] died. His son [her brother-in-law] George [aged 38] succeeded 12th Earl Kinnoull, 5th Baron Hay of Pedwardine in Herefordshire. [her sister] Emily Blanche Charlotte Somerset Countess Kinnoul [aged 38] by marriage Countess Kinnoull.
On 11th August 1867 [her daughter] Lilian Katharine Selina Denison was born to [her husband] William Henry Forester Denison 1st Earl Londesborough [aged 33] and Edith Somerset Countess Londesborough [aged 29].
In or after 1868 [her daughter] Mildred Adelaide Cecilia Denison was born to [her husband] William Henry Forester Denison 1st Earl Londesborough [aged 33] and Edith Somerset Countess Londesborough [aged 29]. She married (1) 1902 William Henry Charles Wemyss Cooke 10th Baronet, son of William Ridley Charles Cooke 9th Baronet, and had issue.
In or after 1868 [her daughter] Ida Emily Augusta Denison Lady Sitwell was born to [her husband] William Henry Forester Denison 1st Earl Londesborough [aged 33] and Edith Somerset Countess Londesborough [aged 29]. She married 1886 George Reresby Sitwell 4th Baronet, son of Sitwell Reresby Sitwell 3rd Baronet, and had issue.
On 3rd February 1881 John Benn Walsh 1st Baron Ormathwaite [aged 82] died. His son [her brother-in-law] Arthur [aged 53] succeeded 2nd Baron Ormathwaite of Ormathwaite in Cumberland. [her sister] Katherine Somerset Baroness Ormathwaite [aged 46] by marriage Baroness Ormathwaite of Ormathwaite in Cumberland.
In 1886 [her son-in-law] George Reresby Sitwell 4th Baronet [aged 25] and Ida Emily Augusta Denison Lady Sitwell [aged 17] were married. She by marriage Lady Sitwell of Renishaw Hall in Derbyshire. She the daughter of William Henry Forester Denison 1st Earl Londesborough [aged 51] and Edith Somerset Countess Londesborough [aged 47].
In 1887 [her husband] William Henry Forester Denison 1st Earl Londesborough [aged 52] was created 1st Earl Londesborough in Yorkshire. Edith Somerset Countess Londesborough [aged 48] by marriage Countess Londesborough in Yorkshire.
On 3rd February 1887 [her son-in-law] Gerald William Henry Codrington 1st Baronet [aged 37] and Edith Henrietta Sybil Denison Lady Codrington [aged 22] were married. She by marriage Lady Codrington of Dodington. She the daughter of William Henry Forester Denison 1st Earl Londesborough [aged 52] and Edith Somerset Countess Londesborough [aged 48]. They were half first cousins. He a great x 5 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.
On 11th August 1887 William Henry Francis Denison 2nd Earl Londesborough [aged 23] and Grace Adelaide Fane Countess Londesborough [aged 26] were married. She the daughter of Francis William Henry Fane 12th Earl of Westmoreland [aged 61] and Adelaide Ida Curzon Howe Countess of Westmoreland [aged 52]. He the son of William Henry Forester Denison 1st Earl Londesborough [aged 53] and Edith Somerset Countess Londesborough [aged 49]. They were third cousins.
On 2nd October 1889 [her mother] Emily Frances Smith Duchess Beaufort [aged 89] died.
In 1895 [her sister] Emily Blanche Charlotte Somerset Countess Kinnoul [aged 67] died.
Adam Murimuth's Continuation and Robert of Avesbury’s 'The Wonderful Deeds of King Edward III'
This volume brings together two of the most important contemporary chronicles for the reign of Edward III and the opening phases of the Hundred Years’ War. Written in Latin by English clerical observers, these texts provide a vivid and authoritative window into the political, diplomatic, and military history of fourteenth-century England and its continental ambitions. Adam Murimuth Continuatio's Chronicarum continues an earlier chronicle into the mid-fourteenth century, offering concise but valuable notices on royal policy, foreign relations, and ecclesiastical affairs. Its annalistic structure makes it especially useful for establishing chronology and tracing the development of events year by year. Complementing it, Robert of Avesbury’s De gestis mirabilibus regis Edwardi tertii is a rich documentary chronicle preserving letters, treaties, and official records alongside narrative passages. It is an indispensable source for understanding Edward III’s claim to the French crown, the conduct of war, and the mechanisms of medieval diplomacy. Together, these works offer scholars, students, and enthusiasts a reliable and unembellished account of a transformative period in English and European history. Essential for anyone interested in medieval chronicles, the Hundred Years’ War, or the reign of Edward III.
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In 1899 [her brother] Henry Charles Fitzroy Somerset 8th Duke Beaufort [aged 75] died at Badminton House. He was buried at St Michael and all Angels Church, Badminton. His son [her nephew] Henry [aged 51] succeeded 9th Duke Beaufort, 11th Marquess Worcester, 15th Earl Worcester, 17th Baron Herbert of Raglan, 9th Baron Botetort. Louise Emily Harford 9th Duchess Beaufort [aged 34] by marriage Duchess Beaufort.
On 31st July 1899 [her daughter] Lilian Katharine Selina Denison [aged 31] died.
On 19th April 1900 [her husband] William Henry Forester Denison 1st Earl Londesborough [aged 65] died. His son William [aged 35] succeeded 2nd Earl Londesborough in Yorkshire, 3rd Baron Londesborough of Londesborough in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Grace Adelaide Fane Countess Londesborough [aged 39] by marriage Countess Londesborough in Yorkshire.
In 1902 [her son-in-law] William Henry Charles Wemyss Cooke 10th Baronet [aged 29] and Mildred Adelaide Cecilia Denison [aged 34] were married. She the daughter of William Henry Forester Denison 1st Earl Londesborough and Edith Somerset Countess Londesborough [aged 63].
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 [aged 69]], her brother-in-law [Arthur Walsh 2nd Baron Ormathwaite [aged 80]] and sister [Katherine Somerset Baroness Ormathwaite [aged 73]]. Lord and Lady Ormathwaite, and Sir Nigel [aged 77] and Lady Emily Kingscote [aged 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. She was a godchild of Queen Adelaide, as was her nephew the Duke of Beaufort [aged 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 [aged 13] and her brother, Burghersh [aged 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 (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 [aged 58] ( 1849-1943).
The Scarlet Tree by Osbert Sitwell Chapter 2. As for the old, though they would try to be amiable to the young, by now crossness had settled in their bones. The women seemed always to live on for ten years or more after their husbands, and dowagerdom possessed its own very real attributes. Moreover, they made their age felt through the medium of many devices. It was not, after all, merely that they looked old; on the contrary, they gloried in their age and the various apparatus of it, and indulged in a wealth of white wigs and fringes, sticks, ebony canes and Bath-chairs, while, as for strokes, these were de rigueur from sixty onwards! In fact, it was a generation which, unlike the next one, did not know how to grow young gracefully .... Thus, my grandmother Londesborough [aged 71] was seldom now to be seen out of a Bath-chair, though she was still able to exercise her charm on us without effort, and equally to deliver the most portentous snubs when she wished it .... Nevertheless, her world had changed — for though she had been train-bearer to Princess Mary of Cambridge, afterwards Duchess of Teck, at Queen Alexandra's wedding to King Edward, and had stayed at Windsor for the ceremony, which took place in St. George s Chapel there, and though, too, she and my grandfather had always belonged to the pleasure-loving, yet she was never Edwardian in the sense that her son and daughter-in-law were. She possessed a stricter outlook, a more severe sense of duty, and all the rather naive, unsophisticated courage of the Victorians, as well as sharing their genuine belief in the conventions.
On 20th May 1914 [her sister] Katherine Somerset Baroness Ormathwaite [aged 79] died.
On 15th May 1915 Edith Somerset Countess Londesborough [aged 76] died.
Kings Wessex: Great x 23 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 20 Grand Daughter of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 26 Grand Daughter of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 21 Grand Daughter of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings Godwinson: Great x 23 Grand Daughter of King Harold II of England
Kings England: Great x 13 Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 10 Grand Daughter of King James IV of Scotland
Kings France: Great x 15 Grand Daughter of King Philip IV of France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 27 Grand Daughter of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Kings Spain: Great x 19 Grand Daughter of Alfonso VII King Castile VII King Leon
Great x 4 Grandfather: Charles Somerset Marquess Worcester 
10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Somerset 2nd Duke Beaufort 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Rebecca Child Marchioness Worcester
Great x 2 Grandfather: Charles Noel Somerset 4th Duke Beaufort 11 x Great Grand Son of King Henry IV of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Wriothesley Baptist Noel 2nd Earl Gainsborough 
9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry IV of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Rachel Noel Duchess Beaufort 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry IV of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Catherine Greville Duchess Buckingham and Normandby 
10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Henry Somerset 5th Duke Beaufort 12 x Great Grand Son of King Henry IV of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Berkeley 
11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Symes Berkeley 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Berkeley Duchess Beaufort 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Norborne
GrandFather: Henry Charles Somerset 6th Duke Beaufort 12 x Great Grand Son 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 Grandfather: Edward Boscawen 10 x Great Grand Son 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 I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Arabella Churchill 
14 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Boscawen Duchess Beaufort 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Evelyn of Nutfield
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Evelyn Evelyn
Great x 2 Grandmother: Frances Evelyn Evelyn
Father: Henry Somerset 7th Duke Beaufort 9 x Great Grand Son of King James IV of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Leveson-Gower 4th Baronet 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Leveson-Gower 1st Baron Gower 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Jane Granville Baroness Gower
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Manners 1st Duke Rutland 
8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Catherine Manners Baroness Gower 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Catherine Noel Duchess Rutland 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Granville Leveson-Gower 1st Marquess Stafford 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Pierrepont 
9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Evelyn Pierrepont 1st Duke Kingston upon Hull 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Evelyn
Great x 2 Grandmother: Evelyn Pierrepont Baroness Gower 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Feilding 2nd Earl Desmond 3rd Earl Denbigh 
7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Fielding Countess Kingston upon Hull 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Carey Countess Desmond and Denbigh 
8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
GrandMother: Charlotte Sophia Leveson-Gower Duchess Beaufort 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King James IV of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Alexander Stewart 3rd Earl Galloway 
17 x Great Grand Son of King David I of Scotland
Great x 3 Grandfather: James Stewart 5th Earl Galloway 5 x Great Grand Son of King James IV of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Douglas Countess Galloway 
4 x Great Grand Daughter of King James IV of Scotland
Great x 2 Grandfather: Alexander Stewart 6th Earl Galloway 6 x Great Grand Son of King James IV of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Alexander Montgomerie 9th Earl Eglinton 5 x Great Grand Son of King James IV of Scotland
Great x 3 Grandmother: Catherine Montgomerie Countess Galloway 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King James IV of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Cochrane
Great x 1 Grandmother: Susanna Stewart Marchioness Stafford 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King James IV of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Cochrane 2nd Earl Dundonald 7 x Great Grand Son of King James I of Scotland
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Cochrane 4th Earl Dundonald 8 x Great Grand Son of King James I of Scotland
Great x 2 Grandmother: Catherine Cochrane Countess Galloway 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King James I of Scotland
Edith Somerset Countess Londesborough 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King James IV of Scotland
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Smith
Great x 1 Grandfather: Charles Smith
GrandFather: Charles Culling Smith
Mother: Emily Frances Smith Duchess Beaufort
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Colley
Great x 2 Grandfather: Richard Colley aka Wesley 1st Baron Mornington
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Ussher of Bridgefoot
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Ussher
Great x 1 Grandfather: Garrett Wellesley 1st Earl Mornington
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Sale
GrandMother: Anne Wellesley
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Hill
Great x 3 Grandfather: Michael Hill
Great x 2 Grandfather: Arthur Hill aka Hill-Trevor 1st Viscount Dungannon
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Trevor 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Trevor
Great x 1 Grandmother: Anne Hill Countess Mornington