On 26th September 1865 Mary Caurroy Tribe Duchess Bedford was born to [her father] Walter Tribe (age 33).
On 31st January 1888 Herbrand Arthur Russell 11th Duke Bedford (age 29) and Mary Caurroy Tribe Duchess Bedford (age 22) were married at Barrackpore. He the son of Francis Russell 9th Duke Bedford (age 68) and Elizabeth Sackville-West Duchess Bedford (age 69).
On 21st December 1888 [her son] Hastings William Russell 12th Duke Bedford was born to [her husband] Herbrand Arthur Russell 11th Duke Bedford (age 30) and Mary Caurroy Tribe Duchess Bedford (age 23). He married November 1914 Louisa Crommelin Roberta Jowitt Whitwell Duchess Bedford and had issue.
On 14th January 1891 [her father-in-law] Francis Russell 9th Duke Bedford (age 71) shot himself as a result of insanity at 81 Eaton Square, Belgravia. His son [her brother-in-law] George (age 38) succeeded 10th Duke Bedford, 10th Marquess Tavistock, 14th Earl Bedford, 14th Baron Russell of Cheneys, 12th Baron Russell of Thornhaugh, 10th Baron Howland of Streatham. Adeline Marie Somers Duchess Bedford (age 38) by marriage Duchess Bedford.
Monument in the Bedford Chapel, St Michael's Church, Chenies erected by [her mother-in-law] Elizabeth Sackville-West Duchess Bedford (age 72) in 1892.
On 23rd March 1893 [her brother-in-law] George William Sackville Russell 10th Duke Bedford (age 40) died. George William Sackville Russell 10th Duke Bedford was buried at Bedford Chapel, St Michael's Church, Chenies. His brother [her husband] Herbrand (age 35) succeeded 11th Duke Bedford, 11th Marquess Tavistock, 15th Earl Bedford, 15th Baron Russell of Cheneys, 13th Baron Russell of Thornhaugh, 11th Baron Howland of Streatham. Mary Caurroy Tribe Duchess Bedford (age 27) by marriage Duchess Bedford.
10th May 1898. James Lafayette (age 45). Photograph of Mary Caurroy Tribe Duchess Bedford (age 32). After leaving Woburn Abbey in a DH.60GIII Moth Major (G-ACUR), she crashed into the North Sea off Great Yarmouth. The airplane's struts were later washed up at Yarmouth, Gorleston, Lowestoft and Southwold. Her body was never recovered. On 14th May, a body of a woman in a flying suit was found in the English Channel, by a train ferry, five miles out from Dover, but Flight Lieut. Preston said there was no chance of the body being the Duchess - there were quite a few daring female aviators lost over the sea in those early years.
On 14th March 1901 [her husband] Herbrand Arthur Russell 11th Duke Bedford (age 43) was appointed 816th Knight of the Garter by King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (age 59).
Before 19th May 1909, the date his obituary appeared in The Times, [her father] Walter Tribe (age 76) died.
In November 1914 Hastings William Russell 12th Duke Bedford (age 25) and Louisa Crommelin Roberta Jowitt Whitwell Duchess Bedford were married. He the son of Herbrand Arthur Russell 11th Duke Bedford (age 56) and Mary Caurroy Tribe Duchess Bedford (age 49).
Abbot John Whethamstede’s Chronicle of the Abbey of St Albans
Abbot John Whethamstede's Register aka Chronicle of his second term at the Abbey of St Albans, 1451-1461, is a remarkable text that describes his first-hand experience of the beginning of the Wars of the Roses including the First and Second Battles of St Albans, 1455 and 1461, respectively, their cause, and their consequences, not least on the Abbey itself. His text also includes Loveday, Blore Heath, Northampton, the Act of Accord, Wakefield, and Towton, and ends with the Coronation of King Edward IV. In addition to the events of the Wars of the Roses, Abbot John, or his scribes who wrote the Chronicle, include details in the life of the Abbey such as charters, letters, land exchanges, visits by legates, and disputes, which provide a rich insight into the day-to-day life of the Abbey, and the challenges faced by its Abbot.
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On 2nd August 1929 Mary Caurroy Tribe Duchess Bedford (age 63) departed on a record-breaking flight of 10,000 miles from Lympne Airport to Karachi (then in India) and return to Croydon Airport in eight days. She was accompanied in her single-engined Fokker F.VII (G-EBTS, Princess Xenia, which she renamed "The Spider" for its tenacity) by her personal pilot Captain C. D. Barnard and mechanic Robert (Bob) Little.
On 8th April 1930 Mary Caurroy Tribe Duchess Bedford (age 64) made her first solo flight, in her DH.60G Moth.
On 10th April 1930 Mary Caurroy Tribe Duchess Bedford (age 64) embarked on a record-breaking flight from Lympne Airport to Cape Town, in "The Spider", flying 9,000 miles in 91 hours and twenty minutes over 10 days, again with Barnard and Little.
On 22nd March 1937 Mary Caurroy Tribe Duchess Bedford (age 71) died in a plane crash.
On 27th August 1940 [her former husband] Herbrand Arthur Russell 11th Duke Bedford (age 82) died. His son Hastings (age 51) succeeded 12th Duke Bedford, 12th Marquess Tavistock, 16th Earl Bedford, 16th Baron Russell of Cheneys, 14th Baron Russell of Thornhaugh, 12th Baron Howland of Streatham. Louisa Crommelin Roberta Jowitt Whitwell Duchess Bedford by marriage Duchess Bedford.