Biography of Georgiana Lennox Countess Bathurst 1765-1841

On 25th December 1759 [her father] George Lennox [aged 22] and [her mother] Louisa Kerr were married. She the daughter of [her grandfather] William Henry Kerr 4th Marquess Lothian [aged 49] and [her grandmother] Caroline Darcy Marchioness Lothian. He the son of Charles Lennox 2nd Duke Richmond and Sarah Cadogan Duchess Richmond. They were fourth cousin once removed. He a great grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland.

On 6th December 1765 Georgiana Lennox Countess Bathurst was born to George Lennox [aged 28] and Louisa Kerr. She a great x 2 granddaughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.

In April 1789 Henry Bathurst 3rd Earl Bathurst [aged 26] and Georgiana Lennox Countess Bathurst [aged 23] were married. He the son of Henry Bathurst 2nd Earl Bathurst [aged 74] and Tryphena Scawen Countess Bathurst Sussex [aged 58]. They were fifth cousin once removed. She a great x 2 granddaughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.

On 9th September 1789 [her brother] Charles Lennox 4th Duke Richmond [aged 25] and [her sister-in-law] Charlotte Gordon Duchess Richmond [aged 20] were married at Gordon Castle, Fochabers. She the daughter of Alexander Gordon 4th Duke Gordon [aged 46] and Jane Maxwell Duchess Gordon [aged 41]. They were sixth cousins. He a great x 2 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.

On 24th February 1790 [her son] Henry George Bathurst 4th Earl Bathurst was born to [her husband] Henry Bathurst 3rd Earl Bathurst [aged 27] and Georgiana Lennox Countess Bathurst [aged 24] at Apsley House, Hyde Park Corner. He a great x 3 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.

On 14th February 1791 [her son] William Lennox Bathurst 5th Earl Bathurst was born to [her husband] Henry Bathurst 3rd Earl Bathurst [aged 28] and Georgiana Lennox Countess Bathurst [aged 25]. He a great x 3 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.

In 1792 [her daughter] Louisa Bathurst was born to [her husband] Henry Bathurst 3rd Earl Bathurst [aged 29] and Georgiana Lennox Countess Bathurst [aged 26]. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.

In 1794 [her son] Peter George Allen Bathurst was born to [her husband] Henry Bathurst 3rd Earl Bathurst [aged 31] and Georgiana Lennox Countess Bathurst [aged 28]. He a great x 3 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland. He died aged two in 1796.

On 6th August 1794 [her father-in-law] Henry Bathurst 2nd Earl Bathurst [aged 80] died at Oakley Grove Cirencester, Gloucestershire. His son [her husband] Henry [aged 32] succeeded 3rd Earl Bathurst of Bathurst in Sussex, 3rd Baron Bathurst. Georgiana Lennox Countess Bathurst [aged 28] by marriage Countess Bathurst of Bathurst in Sussex.

In 1795 [her son] Thomas Seymour Bathurst was born to [her husband] Henry Bathurst 3rd Earl Bathurst [aged 32] and Georgiana Lennox Countess Bathurst [aged 29]. He a great x 3 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland. He married Julia Hankey and had issue.

In 1796 [her son] Peter George Allen Bathurst [aged 2] died.

In 1798 [her daughter] Emily Bathurst was born to [her husband] Henry Bathurst 3rd Earl Bathurst [aged 35] and Georgiana Lennox Countess Bathurst [aged 32]. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland. She married 16th March 1825 her fourth cousin once removed Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby, son of Frederick Ponsonby 3rd Earl Bessborough and Henrietta Frances Spencer Countess Bessborough, and had issue.

In 1802 [her son] Charles Bathurst was born to [her husband] Henry Bathurst 3rd Earl Bathurst [aged 39] and Georgiana Lennox Countess Bathurst [aged 36]. He a great x 3 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland. He married 31st July 1830 Emily Caroline Bertie, daughter of Montagu Bertie 5th Earl of Abingdon and Emily Gage Countess of Abingdon.

On 25th March 1805 [her father] George Lennox [aged 67] died.

On 29th December 1806 [her uncle] Charles Lennox 3rd Duke Richmond [aged 71] died at Goodwood West Sussex. He was buried at Chichester Cathedral [Map]. His nephew [her brother] Charles [aged 42] succeeded 4th Duke Richmond, 4th Earl March, 4th Baron Settrington. [her sister-in-law] Charlotte Gordon Duchess Richmond [aged 38] by marriage Duchess Richmond.

On 28th August 1819 [her brother] Charles Lennox 4th Duke Richmond [aged 54] died. His son [her nephew] Charles [aged 28] succeeded 5th Duke Richmond, 5th Earl March, 5th Baron Settrington. Caroline Paget Duchess Richmond [aged 23] by marriage Duchess Richmond.

On 16th March 1825 [her son-in-law] Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby [aged 41] and Emily Bathurst [aged 27] were married. She the daughter of Henry Bathurst 3rd Earl Bathurst [aged 62] and Georgiana Lennox Countess Bathurst [aged 59]. He the son of Frederick Ponsonby 3rd Earl Bessborough [aged 67] and Henrietta Frances Spencer Countess Bessborough. They were fourth cousin once removed. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.

Greville Memoirs. 20th July 1830. Yesterday was a very busy day with his Majesty, who is going much too fast, and begins to alarm his Ministers and astonish the world. In the morning he inspected the Coldstream Guards, dressed (for the first time in his life) in a military uniform and with a great pair of gold spurs half-way up his legs like a game cock, although he was not to ride, for having chalk-stones in his hands he can't hold the reins. The Queen came to Lady Bathurst's [aged 64] to see the review and hold a sort of drawing-room, when the Ministers' wives were presented to her, and official men, to which were added Lady Bathurst's relations; everybody was in undress except the officers. She is very ugly, with a horrid complexion, but has good manners, and did all this (which she hated) very well. She said the part as if she was acting, and wished the green curtain to drop. After the review the King, with the Dukes of Cumberland, Sussex, and Gloucester, and Prince George and the Prince of Prussia, and the Duchess of Cumberland's son, came in through the garden gate; the Duchess of Gloucester and Princess Augusta were already there; they breakfasted and then went away, the Duke of Gloucester bowing to the company while nobody was taking any notice of him or thinking about him. Nature must have been merry when she made this Prince, and in the sort of mood that certain great artists used to exhibit in their comical caricatures; I never saw a countenance which that line in Dryden's M'Flecknoe would so well describe—

And lambent dulness plays around his face.

Greville Memoirs. 20th July 1830. All this was very well; no great harm in it; more affable, less dignified than the late King; but when this was over, and he might very well have sat himself quietly down and rested, he must needs put on his plainer clothes and start on a ramble about the streets, alone too. In Pall Mall he met Watson Taylor, and took his arm and went up St. James's Street. There he was soon followed by a mob making an uproar, and when he got near White's a woman came up and kissed him. Belfast (who had been sworn in Privy Councillor in the morning), who saw this from White's, and Clinton thought it time to interfere, and came out to attend upon him. The mob increased, and, always holding W. Taylor's arm, and flanked by Clinton and Belfast, who got shoved and kicked about to their inexpressible wrath, he got back to the Palace amid shouting and bawling and applause. When he got home he asked them to go in and take a quiet walk in the garden, and said, 'Oh, never mind all this; when I have walked about a few times they will get used to it, and will take no notice.' There are other stories, but I will put down nothing I do not see or hear, or hear from the witnesses. Belfast told me this in the Park, fresh from the scene and smarting from the buffeting he had got. All the Park was ringing with it, and I told Lady Bathurst [aged 64], who thought it so serious she said she would get [her husband] Lord Bathurst [aged 68] to write to the Duke directly about it. Lord Combermere wanted to be made a Privy Councillor yesterday, but the Duke would not let it be done; he is in a sort of half-disgrace, and is not to be made yet, but will be by-and-by.

Greville Memoirs. 21st July 1830. I came and established myself here last night after the Duchess of Bedford's ball. Lady Bathurst [aged 64] told me that the Queen spoke to her yesterday morning about the King's walk and being followed, and said that for the future he must walk early in the morning, or in some less public place, so there are hopes that his activity may be tamed. He sent George Fitzclarence off from dinner in his silk stockings and cocked hat to Boulogne to invite the King of Würtemberg to come here; he was back in fifty-six hours, and might have been in less. He employs him in everything, and I heard Fitzclarence yesterday ask the Duke of Leeds for two of his father's horses to ride about on his jobs and relieve his own, which the Duke agreed to, but made a wry face. Mount Charles [aged 63] has refused to be Lord of the Bedchamber; his wife [aged 61] can't bear it, and he doesn't like to go to Windsor under such altered circumstances. I hardly ever record the scandalous stories of the day, unless they relate to characters or events, but what relates to public men is different from the loves and friendships of the idiots of society.

On 31st July 1830 Charles Bathurst [aged 28] and Emily Caroline Bertie [aged 19] were married. She the daughter of Montagu Bertie 5th Earl of Abingdon [aged 46] and Emily Gage Countess of Abingdon. He the son of Henry Bathurst 3rd Earl Bathurst [aged 68] and Georgiana Lennox Countess Bathurst [aged 64].

Greville Memoirs. 16th November 1830. I had a long conversation with Lady Bathurst [aged 64], who told me that the Duke had resolved to stand or fall on the Reform question, that he had asked [her husband] Lord Bathurst's [aged 68] opinion, who had advised him by all means to do so; that Lord Bathurst had likewise put his own place at the Duke's disposal long before, and was ready to resign at any moment. It is clear that Lord Bathurst had some suspicion that the Duke had an idea of not standing or falling by that question, for he asked him whether anybody had given him different advice, to which he replied, though it seems rather vaguely, 'No, oh no; I think you are quite right.' I told her the substance of what I had heard about his being disposed to a compromise. She said it was quite impossible, that he would be disgraced irredeemably, but owned it was odd that there should be that notion and the suspicion which crossed Lord Bathurst's mind. I do think it is possible, but for his honour I hope not. The Bathursts felt this appointment of William was a sort of 'Nunc dimittis,' but there is yet something between the cup and the lip, for Stanley got up in the House of Commons and attacked the appointment, and it is just possible it may yet be stopped.

In 1834 [her son] Thomas Seymour Bathurst [aged 39] died.

On 27th July 1834 [her husband] Henry Bathurst 3rd Earl Bathurst [aged 72] died. His son Henry [aged 44] succeeded 4th Earl Bathurst of Bathurst in Sussex, 4th Baron Bathurst.

On 20th January 1841 Georgiana Lennox Countess Bathurst [aged 75] died.