Biography of Florence Cecilia Paget Marchioness Hastings 1842-1907

Paternal Family Tree: Bayly aka Paget

Maternal Family Tree: Jane Wyche

On 05 Aug 1819 [her father] Henry Paget 2nd Marquess Anglesey (age 22) and Eleanora Campbell were married. He the son of Henry William Paget 1st Marquess Anglesey (age 51) and Caroline Elizabeth Villiers Duchess Argyll (age 44).

On 27 Aug 1833 [her father] Henry Paget 2nd Marquess Anglesey (age 36) and [her mother] Henrietta Bagot Marchioness Anglesey were married. He the son of Henry William Paget 1st Marquess Anglesey (age 65) and Caroline Elizabeth Villiers Duchess Argyll (age 58).

In Aug 1842 Florence Cecilia Paget Marchioness Hastings was born to Henry Paget 2nd Marquess Anglesey (age 45) and Henrietta Bagot Marchioness Anglesey.

Adeline Horsey Recollections. We usually spent Christmas at Beaudesert, [her grandfather] Lord Anglesey's (age 75) lovely old place. We were always a merry party, and we dined in the large hall, which is one of the chief features of the house. Lord Anglesey (age 75) was very fond of me, and used to write to me as "My dear Prima Donna!" Some of the friends staying at Beaudesert were Lord (age 38) and [her aunt] Lady Sydney (age 33), Lord (age 52) and [her aunt] Lady Winchilsea, Lord (age 25) and Lady Desart (age 22), Lord Anson (age 48), Lord Ward, M. and Madame Dietrichstein, and the Duke of Northumberland (age 51), then Lord Percy. In 1846 I was bridesmaid to [her half-sister] Lady Constance Paget (age 20), who married Lord Winchilsea (age 28); and my great friend, Florence Paget (age 1), afterwards married the last [her future husband] Marquis of Hastings (age 1).

On 17 Jan 1851 Paulyn Reginald Serlo Rawdon-Hastings 3rd Marquess Hastings (age 18) died. His brother [her future husband] Henry Weysford Charles Plantagenet Rawdon-Hastings 4th Marquess Hastings (age 8) succeeded 4th Marquess Hastings, 9th Earl Loudon, 5th Earl Moira, 21st Baron Grey of Ruthyn, 20th Baron Botreaux, 19th Baron Hungerford, 17th Baron Moleyns and 17th Baron Hastings. Florence Cecilia Paget Marchioness Hastings (age 8) by marriage Marchioness Hastings.

On 29 Apr 1854 [her grandfather] Henry William Paget 1st Marquess Anglesey (age 85) died. His son [her father] Henry Paget 2nd Marquess Anglesey (age 56) succeeded 2nd Marquess Anglesey, 3rd Earl Uxbridge, 5th Baronet Bayly of Plas Newydd in Anglesey. [her mother] Henrietta Bagot Marchioness Anglesey by marriage Marchioness Anglesey.

Before 22 Nov 1856 Augustus Wykeham Clifton (age 27) and [her future sister-in-law] Bertha Lelgarde Rawdon-Hastings 22nd Baroness Grey Ruthyn (age 21) were married. She the daughter of George Augustus Francis Rawdon-Hastings 2nd Marquess Hastings and Barbara Yelverton Marchioness Hastings (age 46).

In 1864 Henry Chaplin 1st Viscount Chaplin (age 23) and Florence Paget (age 21) were engaged to be married; the King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (age 22) offered his congratulations. However, during their engagement Florence had secretly fallen in love with [her future husband] Henry Rawdon-Hastings, 4th Marquess of Hastings (age 21). Just before her wedding, she had Chaplin take her to Marshall & Snelgrove's on Oxford Street to add to her wedding outfit. While Chaplin waited in the carriage outside, Florence walked straight through the shop and out to the other side, where Hastings waited for her in a carriage. Hastings and Florence were married on the same day.

Henry Chaplin A Memoir: Youth VI. Lady Florence (age 21) had kept her secret well. The letter which reached Mr. Chaplin (age 23) at his rooms in Park Lane was an overwhelming surprise.

July 1864, Saturday.

HARRY—To you whom I have injured more deeply than any one, I hardly know how to address myself. Believe me, the task is most painful and one I shrink from. Would to God I had had moral courage to open my heart to you sooner, but I could not bring myself to do so. However, now the truth must be told. Nothing in the world can ever excuse my conduct. I have treated you too infamously, but I sincerely trust the knowledge of my unworthiness will help you to bear the bitter blow I am about to inflict on you.

I know I ought never to have accepted you at all, and I also know I never could have made you happy. You must have seen ever since the beginning of our engagement how very little I really returned all your devotion to me. I assure you I have struggled hard against the feeling, but all to no purpose. There is not a man in the world I have a greater regard and respect for than yourself, but I do not love you in the way a woman ought to love her husband, and I am perfectly certain if I had married you, I should have rendered not only my life miserable, but your own also.

And now we are eternally separated, for by the time you receive this I shall be the wife of [her future husband] Lord Hastings (age 21). I dare not ask for your forgiveness. I feel I have injured you far too deeply for that. All I can do now is to implore you to go and forget me. You said one night here, a woman who ran away was not worth thinking or caring about, so I pray that the blow may fall less severely on you than it might have done. May God bless you, and may you soon find some one far more worthy of becoming your wife than I should ever have been.—Yrs.

FLORENCE (age 21).

Henry Chaplin A Memoir: Youth VI. It was only a few days before the date fixed for the ceremony that the blow fell with dramatic suddenness. Felicitations and presents had been received, the invitations to the wedding had been issued and every detail arranged. The young Squire, proud, happy, and unsuspecting, was busy, in the intervals of the social claims of the London season, in preparing Blankney to receive his bride [Florence Cecilia Paget Marchioness Hastings (age 21)]. On a certain Thursday in July Lady Florence paid a visit for the day to her future home and went round the stables and kennels with Mr. Chaplin to inspect the recent improvements. The following evening they were together at the Opera, and on Saturday morning she showed herself to her father in her wedding dress, which had just been sent home.

The popular legend has it that she afterwards went out driving with Mr. Chaplin and disappeared at the door of Marshall & Snelgrove's — to reappear ultimately as the wife of Lord Hastings. As a matter of fact, it did not happen in this manner, and the story probably arose from the fact that she had been constantly seen driving with Mr. Chaplin in the Park in his smart "cab" with the little tiger standing up behind and a single horse stepping "up to its nose" On this fateful morning, Lady Florence, on the plea of making some final purchases, drove alone—unattended by a servant, which was unusual in those days—in her father's brougham to the Vere Street entrance of Marshall & Snelgrove. She walked straight through the shop to the door in Oxford Street where she was met by Lord Hastings, and the two were presently seen by a common friend driving in a cab in the direction of Euston. There are many who may have cause to be grateful that a beneficent Providence intervened to prevent them from marrying their first love, but happily few suffer so cruel an awakening.

On 16 Jul 1864 Henry Weysford Charles Plantagenet Rawdon-Hastings 4th Marquess Hastings (age 21) and Florence Cecilia Paget Marchioness Hastings (age 21) were married. The marriage created a scandal as the bride had been engaged to Henry Chaplin (age 23) and had eloped with her husband the day before her planned wedding to Chaplin. Chaplin later got his revenge by outbidding Hastings for the horse Hermit which went on to win the 1867 Derby and against which Hastings had bet heavily. The loss led Hastings into heavy debt and drinking. He died some four years later in poverty. She the daughter of Henry Paget 2nd Marquess Anglesey (age 67) and Henrietta Bagot Marchioness Anglesey. He the son of George Augustus Francis Rawdon-Hastings 2nd Marquess Hastings and Barbara Yelverton Marchioness Hastings.

Adeline Horsey Recollections. 16 Jul 1864. Those days were rather noted for elopements, and two of my friends, Baroness Rose Somerset (age 35) and Lady Adela Villiers, were among the numerous romantic girls who were married in haste and sometimes repented at leisure. Florence Paget's (age 21) elopement with the [her husband] last Marquis of Hastings (age 21) on the eve of her marriage with Henry Chaplin (age 23) is too well known for me to repeat the story.

On 22 May 1867 The Derby, run during a freak snowstorm, was won by Hermit (age 3), owned by Henry Chaplin 1st Viscount Chaplin (age 26). The jockey was John Daley. Hermit was bred by Mr William Blenkiron and trained by Mr Bloss at Newmarket. There were 29 runners from an initial entry of 256. The winner won by a neck in 2 mins 52 secs, with a good distance between second and third. The winner won a first prize of £7,000. As a result of betting against Hermit [her husband] Henry Hastings, 4th Marquess (age 24), who had three years earlier eloped with Henry Chaplin's (age 26) fiancé Florence Cecilia Paget Marchioness Hastings (age 24), was ruined. Henry Chaplin's (age 26), who had bet on his horse Hermit, whose odds had lengthened out to 66-1 as a result of doubts about his pre-race fitness, won a fortune.

On 07 Feb 1869 [her father] Henry Paget 2nd Marquess Anglesey (age 71) died. His son [her half-brother] Henry Paget 3rd Marquess Anglesey (age 47) succeeded 3rd Marquess Anglesey, 4th Earl Uxbridge, 6th Baronet Bayly of Plas Newydd in Anglesey. Sophia Eversfield Marchioness Anglesey (age 50) by marriage Marchioness Anglesey.

On 24 Mar 1869 George Chetwynd 3rd Baronet (age 59) died. His son [her future husband] George Chetwynd 4th Baronet (age 19) succeeded 4th Baronet Chetwynd of Brocton Hall in Staffordshire.

In 1870 George Chetwynd 4th Baronet (age 20) and Florence Cecilia Paget Marchioness Hastings (age 27) were married. She the daughter of Henry Paget 2nd Marquess Anglesey and Henrietta Bagot Marchioness Anglesey.

In 1874 [her son] Guy Chetwynd 5th Baronet was born to [her husband] George Chetwynd 4th Baronet (age 24) and Florence Cecilia Paget Marchioness Hastings (age 31).

On 10 Mar 1876 [her daughter] Lilian Florence Chetwynd Marchionness of Anglsey was born to [her husband] George Chetwynd 4th Baronet (age 26) and Florence Cecilia Paget Marchioness Hastings (age 33).

In 1887 [her former sister-in-law] Bertha Lelgarde Rawdon-Hastings 22nd Baroness Grey Ruthyn (age 52) died. Her son Rawdon George Clifton 23rd Baron Grey of Ruthin (age 29) succeeded 23rd Baron Grey of Ruthyn

In 1888 [her former sister-in-law] Victoria Maria Louisa Rawdon-Hastings (age 51) died.

On 14 Jun 1890 [her brother-in-law] Captain Walter Hill Chetwynd (age 34) and Edomé Eliza Theodosia Chetwynd were married.

On 20 Jan 1898 [her son-in-law] Henry Cyril "Toppy" Paget 5th Marquess Anglesey (age 22) and [her daughter] Lilian Florence Chetwynd Marchionness of Anglsey (age 21) were married in a Catholic ceremony at The Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity with Saint Jude, Sloane Street. She the daughter of George Chetwynd 4th Baronet (age 48) and Florence Cecilia Paget Marchioness Hastings (age 55). He the son of Henry Paget 4th Marquess Anglesey (age 62) and Blanche Mary Boyd. They were first cousins.

On 07 Nov 1900 [her daughter] Lilian Florence Chetwynd Marchionness of Anglsey (age 24) obtained a decree nisi. The marriage of [her son-in-law] Henry Cyril "Toppy" Paget 5th Marquess Anglesey (age 25) and Lilian Florence Chetwynd Marchionness of Anglsey (age 24) was later annulled on the grounds of non-consummation.

The Times. 04 Feb 1905.

We have to announce the death of Florence, Marchioness of Hastings (age 62), wife of [her former husband] Sir George Chetwynd, Bart., which took place on Sunday morning at Long Walk House, Windsor, after a few days' illness. The funeral will take place at Grendon, Atherstone, on Thursday next, at 2 o'clock.

Note. On 03 Feb 1907 Florence Cecilia Paget Marchioness Hastings (age 64) died.

On 10 Mar 1917 [her former husband] George Chetwynd 4th Baronet (age 67) died. His son [her son] Guy Chetwynd 5th Baronet (age 43) succeeded 5th Baronet Chetwynd of Brocton Hall in Staffordshire.

Adeline Horsey Recollections. After my marriage Lord Cardigan and I always went to the different meetings, and generally met all our friends; among others, Lord and Baroness Westmorland, Lord and Baroness Hastings, the Duchess of Beaufort, Willie Craven, George Bruce, and Prince Batthyany. Newmarket was quite a charming rendezvous of society then, so different from the mixed crowd that goes there nowadays, and it could be easily re-christened "Jewmarket", for the Chosen are everywhere.

Royal Ancestors of Florence Cecilia Paget Marchioness Hastings 1842-1907

Kings Wessex: Great x 24 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England

Kings Gwynedd: Great x 20 Grand Daughter of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd

Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 26 Grand Daughter of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth

Kings Powys: Great x 21 Grand Daughter of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys

Kings England: Great x 11 Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland

Kings Scotland: Great x 19 Grand Daughter of William "Lion" I King Scotland

Kings Franks: Great x 21 Grand Daughter of Louis VII King Franks

Kings France: Great x 14 Grand Daughter of Charles "Beloved Mad" VI King France

Ancestors of Florence Cecilia Paget Marchioness Hastings 1842-1907

Great x 4 Grandfather: Nicholas Bayly

Great x 3 Grandfather: Edward Bayly 1st Baronet

Great x 2 Grandfather: Nicholas Bayly 2nd Baronet Bayly of Plas Newydd in Anglesey

Great x 1 Grandfather: Henry Bayly-Paget 1st Earl Uxbridge 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Paget 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Paget 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Caroline Paget Lady Plas Newydd Anglesey 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

GrandFather: Henry William Paget 1st Marquess Anglesey 13 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Very Reverend Arthur Champagné

Great x 1 Grandmother: Jane Champagné Countess Uxbridge

Father: Henry Paget 2nd Marquess Anglesey 10 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland

Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Villiers 1st Earl Jersey 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: William Villiers 2nd Earl Jersey 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Barbara Chiffinch Countess Jersey

Great x 2 Grandfather: William Villiers 3rd Earl Jersey 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 1 Grandfather: George Bussy Villiers 4th Earl Jersey 8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Egerton 3rd Earl Bridgewater 5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland

Great x 3 Grandfather: Scroop Egerton 1st Duke Bridgewater 6 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland

Great x 4 Grandmother: Jane Paulet Countess Bridgewater 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Egerton Duchess Bedford 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Churchill 1st Duke Marlborough 14 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Churchill Countess Bridgewater 15 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Sarah Jennings Duchess Marlborough

GrandMother: Caroline Elizabeth Villiers Duchess Argyll 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland

Great x 2 Grandfather: Philip Twysden Bishop Raphoe

Great x 1 Grandmother: Frances Twysden

Florence Cecilia Paget Marchioness Hastings 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland

Great x 4 Grandfather: Walter Bagot 3rd Baronet 15 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Edward Bagot 4th Baronet 16 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Jane Salusbury

Great x 2 Grandfather: Walter Wagstaffe Bagot 5th Baronet 17 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 1 Grandfather: William Bagot 1st Baron Bagot 13 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: George Legge 1st Baron Dartmouth

Great x 3 Grandfather: William Legge 1st Earl Dartmouth

Great x 4 Grandmother: Barbara Archbold Baroness Dartmouth

Great x 2 Grandmother: Barbara Legge Baroness Bagot 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Heneage Finch 1st Earl Aylesford 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Finch Countess Dartmouth 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Banks Countess Aylesford

GrandFather: Charles Bagot 13 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Walter St John 3rd Baronet 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry St John 1st Viscount St John 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Johanna St John Baroness St John Lydiard Tregoze 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King John "Lackland" of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: John St John 2nd Viscount St John 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Claude Pellissary

Great x 3 Grandmother: Angelica Magdalena Pellissary Viscountess St John

Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth St John Baroness Bagot 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Furnese 1st Baronet

Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Furnese 2nd Baronet

Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Brough

Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Furnese

Great x 4 Grandfather: Anthony Balam

Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Balam

Mother: Henrietta Bagot Marchioness Anglesey 14 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Colley

Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Colley aka Wesley 1st Baron Mornington

Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Ussher

Great x 2 Grandfather: Garrett Wellesley 1st Earl Mornington

Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Sale

Great x 1 Grandfather: William Wellesley aka Wellesley-Pole 3rd Earl Mornington

Great x 4 Grandfather: Michael Hill

Great x 3 Grandfather: Arthur Hill aka Hill-Trevor 1st Viscount Dungannon

Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Trevor

Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Hill Countess Mornington

GrandMother: Mary Charlotte Anne Wellesley-Pole 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Arthur Forbes 2nd Earl Granard

Great x 3 Grandfather: George Forbes 3rd Earl Granard

Great x 2 Grandfather: John Forbes

Great x 1 Grandmother: Katherine Forbes Countess Mornington 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Algernon Capell 2nd Earl Essex 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: William Capell 3rd Earl Essex 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Bentinck Countess Essex 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Mary Capell 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Hyde 2nd Earl Rochester 4th Earl Clarendon 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Jane Hyde Countess Essex 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England