Adora Frances Olga Wells Lady Musgrave and Baroness Brougham 1849-1925

Around 1849 Adora Frances Olga Wells Lady Musgrave and Baroness Brougham was born to Peter Wells of Windsor Forest and Great Park.

In 1867 Richard Courtenay Musgrave 11th Baronet [aged 28] and Adora Frances Olga Wells Lady Musgrave and Baroness Brougham [aged 18] were married.

On 11th October 1872 [her son] Richard George Musgrave 12th Baronet was born to [her husband] Richard Courtenay Musgrave 11th Baronet [aged 34] and Adora Frances Olga Wells Lady Musgrave and Baroness Brougham [aged 23]. He married before 1896 Eleanor Harbord Lady Musgrave, daughter of Charles Harbord 5th Baron Suffield and Cecilia Annetta Baring Baroness Suffield, and had issue.

On 29th December 1872 [her father-in-law] George Musgrave 10th Baronet [aged 73] died. His son [her husband] Richard [aged 34] succeeded 11th Baronet Musgrave of Hartley Castle in Westmoreland. Adora Frances Olga Wells Lady Musgrave and Baroness Brougham [aged 23] by marriage Lady Musgrave of Hartley Castle in Westmoreland.

On 28th November 1875 [her son] Thomas Charles Musgrave was born to [her husband] Richard Courtenay Musgrave 11th Baronet [aged 37] and Adora Frances Olga Wells Lady Musgrave and Baroness Brougham [aged 26].

On 13th February 1881 [her husband] Richard Courtenay Musgrave 11th Baronet [aged 42] died. His son Richard [aged 8] succeeded 12th Baronet Musgrave of Hartley Castle in Westmoreland.

In 1882 Henry Brougham 3rd Baron Brougham and Vaux [aged 45] and Adora Frances Olga Wells Lady Musgrave and Baroness Brougham [aged 33] were married.

On 3rd January 1886 [her father-in-law] William Brougham 2nd Baron Brougham and Vaux [aged 90] died. His son [her husband] Henry [aged 49] succeeded 3rd Baron Brougham and Vaux. Adora Frances Olga Wells Lady Musgrave and Baroness Brougham [aged 37] by marriage Baroness Brougham and Vaux.

Before 1896 [her son] Richard George Musgrave 12th Baronet [aged 23] and [her daughter-in-law] Eleanor Harbord Lady Musgrave [aged 27] were married. She by marriage Lady Musgrave of Hartley Castle in Westmoreland.

Jean de Waurin's Chronicle of England Volume 6 Books 3-6: The Wars of the Roses

Jean de Waurin was a French Chronicler, from the Artois region, who was born around 1400, and died around 1474. Waurin’s Chronicle of England, Volume 6, covering the period 1450 to 1471, from which we have selected and translated Chapters relating to the Wars of the Roses, provides a vivid, original, contemporary description of key events some of which he witnessed first-hand, some of which he was told by the key people involved with whom Waurin had a personal relationship.

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On 17th December 1925 Adora Frances Olga Wells Lady Musgrave and Baroness Brougham [aged 76] died.

On 24th May 1927 [her former husband] Henry Brougham 3rd Baron Brougham and Vaux [aged 90] died. His grandson Victor [aged 17] succeeded 4th Baron Brougham and Vaux. His only son Henry Brougham had predeceased him twenty days before.

[her son] Henry Brougham was born to Henry Brougham 3rd Baron Brougham and Vaux and Adora Frances Olga Wells Lady Musgrave and Baroness Brougham.