Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick 1861-1938

On 13th October 1860 [her father] Charles Henry Maynard [aged 46] and [her mother] Blanche Adeliza Fitzroy [aged 21] were married. The difference in their ages was 25 years.

On 10th December 1861 Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick was born to Charles Henry Maynard [aged 47] and Blanche Adeliza Fitzroy [aged 22] at 27 Berkeley Square, Mayfair.

On 2nd January 1865 [her father] Charles Henry Maynard [aged 51] died.

The Chelmsford Chronicle (Chelmsford, Essex), January 6, 1865, p. 8, col. 2

Death of Colonel Maynard – Colonel the Hon. Chas. Henry Maynard, only son of Viscount Maynard, died on Monday, at his residence in Hill street, Berkeley-square. The lamented gentleman was born in 1814, and married 16th January, 1840, Lady Francis Julia Murray, second daughter of the James first Lord Glenlyon, and sister to the late Duke of Athole, who died in 1858. He married, second, in 1860, Miss Fitzroy, second daughter of Mr. Henry Fitzroy, of Salcey Lawn, Northamptonshire, by whom he leaves issue two infant daughters. The deceased was formerly in the Royal Horse Guards, and held the post of colonel in the Essex Militia, and was also a deputy-lieutenant of the county.

On 8th November 1866 [her step-father] Robert St Clair-Erskine 4th Earl of Rosslyn [aged 33] and [her mother] Blanche Adeliza Fitzroy [aged 27] were married.

Life's Ebb And Flow Chapter IV. [Around 1881]. Of another group were Henry [aged 28] and Violet Manners [aged 24], the late Duke of Rutland and the present Dowager Duchess, Lord Rowton [aged 42], the witty Henry Calcraft, Mr. and Mrs. Henry White (later Ambassadors of the United States in Paris, both now dead), beautiful Gladys deGrey (the late Marchioness of Ripon), Sir Robert Collier (the painter, father of the Hon. John Collier), Lady Randolph Churchill [aged 26] (who was first at Easton in 1885, and figured in all our gatherings afterwards), Admiral Sir Hedworth Lambton, and Henry Chaplin [aged 40] ("the Squire," the late Lord Chaplin), and Lord and Lady Carmarthen (afterwards the late Duke and Duchess of Leeds). Sir William Gordon Cumming, the smartest of men about town and more sinned against than sinning, was a constant friend, but he cut us all off in his retirement, and I often had sad thoughts of him, and always kept a warm comer in my heart for him. Mr. and Mrs. Hwfa Williams, who founded Sandown Park racing, were welcome everywhere. Maurice and Beatrice Ephrussi were dear Paris racing friends. Prince Charles Kinsky rode his own winner of the Grand National, "Zoedone," and was a sharer of my horsey adventures!

On 30th April 1881 Francis Greville 5th Earl Warwick 5th Earl Brooke [aged 28] and Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick [aged 19] were married at the King Henry VII Chapel, Westminster Abbey [Map]. See her autobiography Life's Ebb and Flow Page 38. He the son of George Greville 4th Earl Warwick 4th Earl Brooke [aged 63] and Anne Charteris Countess Warwick [aged 52]. They were fourth cousin once removed.

Life's Ebb And Flow Chapter IV. [30th April 1881]. And so the tale unfolds. Our [Francis Greville 5th Earl Warwick 5th Earl Brooke [aged 28] and Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick [aged 19]] marriage took place in the Henry VII Chapel in Westminster Abbey, and the newspapers of the day made much of the "most brilliant wedding of a dozen seasons." I remember my surprise as I drove from our house in Carlton Gardens to the Abbey to find the way lined with interested crowds.

Among the guests were the Prince [aged 39] and Princess of Wales [aged 36], Prince and Princess Christian, the Duke [aged 30] and Duchess of Connaught [aged 20], Princess Louise [aged 33] (Marchioness of Lorne), Princess Mary Adelaide [aged 47] (Duchess of Teck) and the Duke of Teck (parents of Queen Mary), with Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany [aged 28], as my husband's best man. The crush filled the Abbey from the choir to the door.

My twelve bridesmaids were all girl friends and relatives. They were: Blanche Maynard [aged 17], my sister (now Lady Algernon Gordon-Lennox [aged 33]), Lady Eva Greville [aged 21], my husband's only sister, my stepsisters, Millicent [aged 13], Sybil [aged 9], and Angela St. Clair Erskine [aged 4] (later Duchess of Sutherland, Countess of Westmorland, and Lady A. Forbes), Countess Feodore Gleichen [aged 19] (later a renowned sculptor), Lady Florence Bridgman [aged 22] (the present Countess of Harewood and mother of Viscount Lascelles [aged 34]), Miss Wombwell [aged 19] (Countess of Dartrey), Miss Mills, the first Lord Hillingdon's daughter, Miss Violet Lindsay [aged 25] (now Violet, Duchess of Rutland), and Miss Ethel Milner [aged 30] (later Countess of Durham).

On 10th September 1882 [her son] Leopold Guy Greville 6th Earl Warwick 6th Earl Brooke was born to [her husband] Francis Greville 5th Earl Warwick 5th Earl Brooke [aged 29] and Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick [aged 20]. He married 29th April 1909 Elfrida Marjorie Eden Countess Warwick and Brooke, daughter of William Eden 7th and 5th Baronet and Sybil Frances Grey Lady Eden, and had issue.

On 20th October 1884 [her brother-in-law] Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower 4th Duke of Sutherland [aged 33] and [her half-sister] Millicent Fanny St Clair-Erskine Duchess of Sutherland [aged 17] were married; her seventeenth birthday. He the son of George Leveson-Gower 3rd Duke Sutherland [aged 55] and Anne Hay Mackenzie Duchess Sutherland [aged 55]. They were fourth cousin once removed.

On 25th October 1884 [her daughter] Marjorie Blanche Eva Greville Countess Feversham was born to [her husband] Francis Greville 5th Earl Warwick 5th Earl Brooke [aged 31] and Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick [aged 22]. Some sources suggest her father was Charles de la Poer Beresford 1st Baron Beresford [aged 38]. She married (1) before 2nd November 1906 her fifth cousin once removed Charles William Reginald Duncombe 2nd Earl Feversham and had issue (2) 1st November 1917 her sixth cousin William Gervase Beckett 1st Baronet and had issue.

On 22nd November 1885 [her son] Charles Algernon Cromartie Greville was born to [her husband] Francis Greville 5th Earl Warwick 5th Earl Brooke [aged 32] and Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick [aged 23]. Some sources suggest her father was Charles de la Poer Beresford 1st Baron Beresford [aged 39]. He died aged one in 1887.

Life's Ebb And Flow Chapter IV. In August 1886, my [Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick [aged 24]] sister [her half-sister] Blanche [aged 22] married the Duke of Richmond's [aged 68] son, Lord Algernon Gordon-Lennox [aged 38], in Little Easton church [Map], the Bishop of St. Albans [Map] performing the service, and a family party assembling. The only child of this marriage is my niece, Ivy, Marchioness of Titchfield, who married the eldest son [William Arthur Henry Cavendish-Bentinck 7th Duke Portland] of the present Duke [aged 28] and Duchess [aged 22] of Portland.

On 28th March 1887 [her son] Charles Algernon Cromartie Greville [aged 1] died.

On 28th May 1892 [her brother-in-law] Anthony Fane 13th Earl of Westmoreland [aged 32] and [her half-sister] Sybil Mary St Clair-Erskine Countess of Westmorland [aged 20] were married. She by marriage Countess of Westmoreland. He the son of Francis William Henry Fane 12th Earl of Westmoreland and Adelaide Ida Curzon Howe Countess of Westmoreland [aged 57].

On 22nd September 1892 George Leveson-Gower 3rd Duke Sutherland [aged 63] died. His son [her brother-in-law] Cromartie [aged 41] succeeded 4th Duke Sutherland, 5th Marquess Stafford, 22nd Earl Sutherland, 6th Earl Gower, 7th Baron Gower, 11th Baronet Gower of Stittenham in Yorkshire. [her half-sister] Millicent Fanny St Clair-Erskine Duchess of Sutherland [aged 24] by marriage Duchess Sutherland.

On 2nd December 1893 [her father-in-law] George Greville 4th Earl Warwick 4th Earl Brooke [aged 75] died at Warwick Castle [Map]. His son [her husband] Francis [aged 40] succeeded 5th Earl Warwick, 5th Earl Brooke Warwick Castle, 12th Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court in Warwickshire. Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick [aged 31] by marriage Countess Warwick.

1897. James Lafayette [aged 44]. Photograph of Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick [aged 35].

On 21st March 1898 [her son] Maynard Greville was born to [her husband] Francis Greville 5th Earl Warwick 5th Earl Brooke [aged 45] and Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick [aged 36]. Some sources suggest his father was Joseph Frederick Laycock [aged 30].

4th May 1899. James Lafayette [aged 46]. Photograph of Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick [aged 37].

1902. Henry Walter Barnett [aged 39]. Portrait of Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick [aged 40].

Before 19th November 1902 Arthur Hill 6th Marquess of Downshire [aged 31] and Katherine Mary "Kitty" Hare Marchioness Downshire [aged 30] were divorced as a consequence of her affair with Joseph Frederick Laycock [aged 35]. Laycock was also having an affair with Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick [aged 40] with whom he possibly fathered two children: [her son] Maynard Greville [aged 4] and [her daughter] Mercy Greville.

On 3rd April 1904 [her daughter] Mercy Greville was born to [her husband] Francis Greville 5th Earl Warwick 5th Earl Brooke [aged 51] and Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick [aged 42]. Some sources describe her father as Joseph Frederick Laycock [aged 36].

1905. John Singer Sargent [aged 48]. Portrait of Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick [aged 43] and her son Maynard Greville [aged 6].

Maynard Greville: On 21st March 1898 he was born to Francis Greville 5th Earl Warwick 5th Earl Brooke and Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick. Some sources suggest his father was Joseph Frederick Laycock. In 1967 Maynard Greville died.

Before 2nd November 1906 [her son-in-law] Charles William Reginald Duncombe 2nd Earl Feversham [aged 27] and Marjorie Blanche Eva Greville Countess Feversham [aged 22] were married. She the daughter of Francis Greville 5th Earl Warwick 5th Earl Brooke [aged 53] and Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick [aged 44]. They were fifth cousin once removed.

On 29th April 1909 Leopold Guy Greville 6th Earl Warwick 6th Earl Brooke [aged 26] and Elfrida Marjorie Eden Countess Warwick and Brooke [aged 22] were married. He the son of Francis Greville 5th Earl Warwick 5th Earl Brooke [aged 56] and Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick [aged 47].

On 21st July 1910 [her half-sister] Sybil Mary St Clair-Erskine Countess of Westmorland [aged 38] died.

18th August 1910. Bassano Ltd. Photograph of Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick [aged 48]

18th August 1910. Bassano Ltd. Photograph of Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick [aged 48] with her daughter Mercy Greville [aged 6].

Mercy Greville: On 3rd April 1904 she was born to Francis Greville 5th Earl Warwick 5th Earl Brooke and Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick. Some sources describe her father as Joseph Frederick Laycock. On 12th November 1968 Mercy Greville died.

Around 1914 Arthur Du Cros 1st Baronet [aged 42] paid £64,000 of the debts of Daisy, Countess of Warwick [aged 52] in return for letters from King Edward VII of the United Kingdom after she had threatened to sell them to the American media. He was subsequently created a Baronet.

On 1st November 1917 [her son-in-law] William Gervase Beckett 1st Baronet [aged 51] and Marjorie Blanche Eva Greville Countess Feversham [aged 33] were married. She the widow of the brother Charles William Reginald Duncombe 2nd Earl Feversham of his first wife Mabel Theresa Duncombe. She the daughter of Francis Greville 5th Earl Warwick 5th Earl Brooke [aged 64] and Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick [aged 55]. They were sixth cousins.

On 15th January 1924 [her husband] Francis Greville 5th Earl Warwick 5th Earl Brooke [aged 70] died. His son Leopold [aged 41] succeeded 6th Earl Warwick, 6th Earl Brooke Warwick Castle, 13th Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court in Warwickshire. Elfrida Marjorie Eden Countess Warwick and Brooke [aged 37] by marriage Countess Warwick, Countess Brooke Warwick Castle.

In 1928 Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick [aged 66] was facing imprisonment in HM Prison Holloway for her debts but was released on condition that if and when she published her memoirs she would "undertake to submit it to a literary man". She published Life's Ebb and Flow the following year.

On 31st January 1928 Leopold Guy Greville 6th Earl Warwick 6th Earl Brooke [aged 45] died. His son Charles [aged 16] succeeded 7th Earl Warwick, 7th Earl Brooke Warwick Castle, 14th Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court in Warwickshire.

Life's Ebb And Flow by Frances Countess of Warwick. 1929. Life's Ebb & Flow By Frances, Countess Of Warwick [aged 67]. "I scarcely count these things our own".

On 8th December 1933 [her mother] Blanche Adeliza Fitzroy [aged 94] died at Regent's Park. Memorial at the Rosslyn Chapel [Map]

Blanche Adeliza Fitzroy: On 22nd August 1839 she was born to Henry Fitzroy in Salcey Lawn, Northamptonshire and Jane Elizabeth Beauclerk. On 13th October 1860 Charles Henry Maynard and she were married. The difference in their ages was 25 years. On 8th November 1866 Robert St Clair-Erskine 4th Earl of Rosslyn and she were married.

On 26th July 1938 Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick [aged 76] died.