Biography of Lilian Florence Chetwynd Marchioness of Anglesey 1876-1962

On 16th July 1864 Henry Weysford Charles Plantagenet Rawdon-Hastings 4th Marquess Hastings (age 21) and [her mother] Florence Cecilia Paget Marchioness Hastings (age 21) were married. The marriage created a scandal as the bride had been engaged to Henry Chaplin (age 23) and had eloped with her husband the day before her planned wedding to Chaplin. Chaplin later got his revenge by outbidding Hastings for the horse Hermit which went on to win the 1867 Derby and against which Hastings had bet heavily. The loss led Hastings into heavy debt and drinking. He died some four years later in poverty. She the daughter of [her grandfather] Henry Paget 2nd Marquess Anglesey (age 67) and [her grandmother] Henrietta Bagot Marchioness Anglesey. He the son of George Augustus Francis Rawdon-Hastings 2nd Marquess Hastings and Barbara Yelverton Marchioness Hastings.

In 1870 [her father] George Chetwynd 4th Baronet (age 20) and [her mother] Florence Cecilia Paget Marchioness Hastings (age 27) were married. She the daughter of [her grandfather] Henry Paget 2nd Marquess Anglesey and [her grandmother] Henrietta Bagot Marchioness Anglesey. They were fifth cousins.

On 10th March 1876 Lilian Florence Chetwynd Marchioness of Anglesey was born to [her father] George Chetwynd 4th Baronet (age 26) and [her mother] Florence Cecilia Paget Marchioness Hastings (age 33).

On 14th August 1877 Blanche Mary Boyd died at Boulogne sur Mer [Map]. Her son [her future husband] Henry Cyril "Toppy" Paget 5th Marquess Anglesey (age 2) was fostered by her sister Edith Marion Boyd until he was eight years old. She, Edith, subsequently married Gustavce Coquelin, brother of Toppy's putative father Benoît Constant Coquelin (age 36).

On 20th January 1898 Henry Cyril "Toppy" Paget 5th Marquess Anglesey (age 22) and Lilian Florence Chetwynd Marchioness of Anglesey (age 21) were married in a Catholic ceremony at The Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity with Saint Jude, Sloane Street. She the daughter of George Chetwynd 4th Baronet (age 48) and Florence Cecilia Paget Marchioness Hastings (age 55). He the son of Henry Paget 4th Marquess Anglesey (age 62) and Blanche Mary Boyd. They were first cousins.

On 13th October 1898 [her uncle] Henry Paget 4th Marquess Anglesey (age 62) died. He was buried at St Edwen's Church, Llanedwen [Map]. His son [her husband] Henry (age 23) succeeded 5th Marquess Anglesey, 6th Earl Uxbridge, 14th Baron Paget Beaudasert, 8th Baronet Bayly of Plas Newydd in Anglesey. Lilian Florence Chetwynd Marchioness of Anglesey (age 22) by marriage Marchioness Anglesey.

On 7th November 1900 Lilian Florence Chetwynd Marchioness of Anglesey (age 24) obtained a decree nisi. The marriage of Henry Cyril "Toppy" Paget 5th Marquess Anglesey (age 25) and Lilian Florence Chetwynd Marchioness of Anglesey was later annulled on the grounds of non-consummation.

1902. Henry Walter Barnett (age 39). Portrait of Lilian Florence Chetwynd Marchioness of Anglesey (age 25).

1902. Henry Walter Barnett (age 39). Portrait of Lilian Florence Chetwynd Marchioness of Anglesey (age 25).

On 14th March 1905 [her former husband] Henry Cyril "Toppy" Paget 5th Marquess Anglesey (age 29) died of tuberculosis at the Hotel Royale, Monte Carlo; his former wife (age 29) was present. He was buried at St Edwen's Church, Llanedwen [Map] in the same grave as his [her uncle] father. His first cousin Charles (age 19) succeeded 6th Marquess Anglesey, 7th Earl Uxbridge, 15th Baron Paget Beaudasert, 9th Baronet Bayly of Plas Newydd in Anglesey.

Charles Henry Alexander Paget 6th Marquess Anglesey: On 14th April 1885 he was born to Alexander Victor Paget. On 3rd August 1912 Charles Henry Alexander Paget 6th Marquess Anglesey and Victoria Marjorie Harriet Manners Marchioness Anglesey were married. She by marriage Marchioness Anglesey. She the daughter of Henry John Brinsley Manners 8th Duke Rutland and Violet Lindsay Duchess Rutland. They were fifth cousins.

On 3rd February 1907 [her mother] Florence Cecilia Paget Marchioness Hastings (age 64) died.

On 11th December 1909 John Francis Grey Gilliat (age 27) and Lilian Florence Chetwynd Marchioness of Anglesey (age 33) were married. She the daughter of George Chetwynd 4th Baronet (age 60) and Florence Cecilia Paget Marchioness Hastings.

On 10th March 1917 [her father] George Chetwynd 4th Baronet (age 67) died. His son [her brother] Guy (age 43) succeeded 5th Baronet Chetwynd of Brocton Hall in Staffordshire.

On 29th September 1942 [her son-in-law] Richard Sykes 7th Baronet (age 37) and [her daughter] Virginia Gilliat Lady Sykes were married. She by marriage Lady Sykes of Sledmere in Yorkshire. She the daughter of [her husband] John Francis Grey Gilliat (age 60) and Lilian Florence Chetwynd Marchioness of Anglesey (age 66). They were half fifth cousin once removed.

On 22nd September 1948 [her husband] John Francis Grey Gilliat (age 66) died.

On 20th February 1962 Lilian Florence Chetwynd Marchioness of Anglesey (age 85) died.

[her daughter] Virginia Gilliat Lady Sykes was born to John Francis Grey Gilliat and Lilian Florence Chetwynd Marchioness of Anglesey. She married 29th September 1942 her half fifth cousin once removed Richard Sykes 7th Baronet, son of Mark Sykes 6th Baronet and Edith Violet Gorst, and had issue.