James Lafayette 1853-1923

In 1853 James Lafayette was born.

1888. James Lafayette [aged 35]. Photograph of sisters Helen Venetia Duncombe Viscountess D'Abernon [aged 22] and Hermione Wilhelmina Duncombe Duchess Leinster [aged 23].

Hermione Wilhelmina Duncombe Duchess Leinster: On 30th March 1864 she was born to William Duncombe 1st Earl Feversham and Mabel Violet Graham Countess Feversham. Coefficient of inbreeding 1.57%. On 17th January 1884 Gerald Fitzgerald 5th Duke Leinster and she were married. She the daughter of William Duncombe 1st Earl Feversham and Mabel Violet Graham Countess Feversham. He the son of Charles William Fitzgerald Fitzgerald 4th Duke Leinster and Caroline Leveson-Gower Duchess Leinster. They were sixth cousins. He a great x 5 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland. On 10th February 1887, coincidentally the same day his father died, 10 February, Charles William Fitzgerald Fitzgerald 4th Duke Leinster died at Carton House, Carton, Kildare, County Kildare. His son Gerald succeeded 5th Duke Leinster. She by marriage Duchess Leinster. On 19th March 1895 Hermione Wilhelmina Duncombe Duchess Leinster died of tuberculosis at Menton.

1897. James Lafayette [aged 44]. Photograph of Edith Amelia Ward Baroness Wolverton [aged 24] as "Brittania" at the 1897 Devonshire House Ball.

Edith Amelia Ward Baroness Wolverton: On 16th September 1872 she was born to William Ward 1st Earl of Dudley and Georgina Moncrieffe Countess Dudley. On 5th January 1895 Frederic Glyn 4th Baron Wolverton and she were married. She by marriage Baroness Wolverton. She the daughter of William Ward 1st Earl of Dudley and Georgina Moncrieffe Countess Dudley. On 6th June 1956 Edith Amelia Ward Baroness Wolverton died.

12th July 1897. James Lafayette [aged 44]. Photograph of Henry Chaplin 1st Viscount Chaplin [aged 56] as "Marshal Lefevre" at the 1897 Devonshire House Ball.

1897. James Lafayette [aged 44]. Photograph of Helen Vane-Tempest-Stewart Countess Ilchester [aged 20].

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

Late 1890s. James Lafayette [aged 45]. Photograph of Adele Beach Grant Countess Essex [aged 31].

10th May 1898. James Lafayette [aged 45]. Photograph of Mary Caurroy Tribe Duchess Bedford [aged 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.

2nd September 1898. James Lafayette [aged 45]. Photograph of Mary Theresa "Daisy" Cornwallis-West [aged 25].

Mary Theresa "Daisy" Cornwallis-West: On 28th June 1873 she was born to William Cornwallis-West and Mary "Patsy" Fitzpatrick at Ruthin Castle [Map]. On 29th June 1943 Mary Theresa "Daisy" Cornwallis-West died.

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

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14th February 1900. James Lafayette [aged 47]. Detail of photograph of Sybil Mary St Clair-Erskine Countess of Westmorland [aged 28]

14th February 1900. James Lafayette [aged 47]. Photograph of Sybil Mary St Clair-Erskine Countess of Westmorland [aged 28]

1902. James Lafayette [aged 49]. Photograph of Constance Edwina "Shelagh" Cornwallis-West Duchess Westminster [aged 24].

1902. James Lafayette [aged 49]. Photograph of William Humble Ward 2nd Earl of Dudley [aged 34].

1902. James Lafayette [aged 49]. Photograph of Constance Edwina "Shelagh" Cornwallis-West Duchess Westminster [aged 24].

24th June 1902. James Lafayette [aged 49]. Photograph of Evelyn Caroline Davenport Baroness Newton.

Evelyn Caroline Davenport Baroness Newton: she was born to William Bromley-Davenport. In 1880 Thomas Wodehouse Leigh 2nd Baron Newton and she were married. On 15th December 1898 William John Legh 1st Baron Newton died. His son Thomas succeeded 2nd Baron Newton of Newton-in-Makerfield in Lancashire. She by marriage Baroness Newton of Newton-in-Makerfield in Lancashire. In September 1931 she died.

Around 1906. James Lafayette [aged 53]. Photograph of Gwladys Sutherst Marchioness Townshend [aged 22].

1907. James Lafayette [aged 54]. Photograph of Constance Edwina "Shelagh" Cornwallis-West Duchess Westminster [aged 29].

In 1923 James Lafayette [aged 70] died.