Biography of Frances Whitmore Lady Myddelton 1666-1695

Before May 1665 [her father] Thomas Whitmore [aged 23] and [her mother] Frances Brooke Lady Whitmore [aged 25] were married.

On 7th November 1666 Frances Whitmore Lady Myddelton was born to [her father] Thomas Whitmore [aged 24] and [her mother] Frances Brooke Lady Whitmore [aged 26].

Around 1682 [her father] Thomas Whitmore [aged 40] died.

On 5th February 1684 Thomas Myddelton 2nd Baronet [aged 33] died. His brother [her future husband] Richard [aged 28] succeeded 3rd Baronet Myddelton of Chirk Castle.

Around 1686 Godfrey Kneller [aged 39]. Portrait of Frances Whitmore Lady Myddelton [aged 19]. One of the Hampton Court Beauties.

Before 19th April 1686 [her husband] William Whitmore of Balmes House in Hackney died.

Before 19th April 1686 William Whitmore of Balmes House in Hackney and Frances Whitmore Lady Myddelton [aged 19] were married.

On 19th April 1686 Richard Myddelton 3rd Baronet [aged 31] and Frances Whitmore Lady Myddelton [aged 19] were married. She by marriage Lady Myddelton of Chirk Castle.

In 1690 [her mother] Frances Brooke Lady Whitmore [aged 50] died.

Around 1691 Godfrey Kneller [aged 44]. Portrait of Frances Whitmore Lady Myddelton [aged 24].

Around 1694 [her son] William Myddelton 4th Baronet was born to [her husband] Richard Myddelton 3rd Baronet [aged 38] and Frances Whitmore Lady Myddelton [aged 27].

After 1695 Frances Whitmore Lady Myddelton [deceased] died.

On 29th April 1716 [her former husband] Richard Myddelton 3rd Baronet [aged 61] died and was buried at St Mary's Church, Chirk [Map]. His funeral cost £365. His son William [aged 22] succeeded 4th Baronet Myddelton of Chirk Castle.

After 1718. St Mary's Church, Chirk [Map]. Monument to [her former husband] Richard Myddelton 3rd Baronet and his wife Frances Whitmore Lady Myddelton, their daughter Frances Myddelton who died young and their son William Myddelton 4th Baronet [aged 24] who died two years after his father. Sculpted by Robert Wynne of Ruthin, commissioned by Mary Myddelton.

White marble, a gadrooned and panelled base, with a long inscription, set forward carrying the life-sized recumbent figure of William Myddelton 4th Baronet, behind, his standing parents, fashionably dressed and flanking a corniced die with an urn crest, and displaying on its front a swaddled child. The figures are flanked by Corinthian Columns supporting an entablature, the cornice arched at the centre with roses on its soffit. Flaming urns stand above the columns, and the family crest, garlanded with a helmet and red hand crest above the arch.

Frances Myddelton: she was born to Richard Myddelton 3rd Baronet and Frances Whitmore Lady Myddelton. She died young.

William Myddelton 4th Baronet: Around 1694 he was born to Richard Myddelton 3rd Baronet and Frances Whitmore Lady Myddelton. On 29th April 1716 Richard Myddelton 3rd Baronet died and was buried at St Mary's Church, Chirk [Map]. His funeral cost £365. His son William succeeded 4th Baronet Myddelton of Chirk Castle. On 5th January 1718 William Myddelton 4th Baronet died unmarried. Baronet Myddelton of Chirk Castle extinct.

Mary Myddelton: she was born to Richard Myddelton 3rd Baronet and Frances Whitmore Lady Myddelton.

[her daughter] Frances Myddelton was born to Richard Myddelton 3rd Baronet and Frances Whitmore Lady Myddelton. She died young.

[her daughter] Mary Myddelton was born to Richard Myddelton 3rd Baronet and Frances Whitmore Lady Myddelton.