FRANCES THYNNE, DUCHESS OF SOMERSET, HAD as much taste for the writings of others, as modesty about her own. [This lady was the mother of Elizabeth, duchess of Northumberland, by Algernon, earl of Hertford, and seventh duke of Somerset, being herself the daughter and coheir of Henry Thynne, eldest son of Thomas, first viscount Weymouth. Having only one son who died a minor, the younger branch of Seymour Somerset became extinct, and sir Edward Seymour of the elder branch succeeded to the dukedom; it having been settled in the patent that the sons of the second wife should inherit first. Her grace was one of the ladies of the bedchamber to queen Caroline, and appears to have lived in the greatest conjugal harmony with duke Algernon, and to have conducted herself through the whole tenor of her life with becoming dignity and affability. After the demise of the duke in 1750, she lived in retirement at Percy Lodge, near Colnbrook, till her own death on July 7, 17543. On the loss of her son George, viscount Beau • Bolton's Extinct Peerage, p. 264. FRANCES THYNNE, DUCHESS OF SOMERSET, HAD as much taste for the writings of others, as modesty about her own. [This lady was the mother of Elizabeth, duchess of Northumberland, by Algernon, earl of Hertford, and seventh duke of Somerset, being herself the daughter and coheir of Henry Thynne, eldest son of Thomas, first viscount Weymouth. Having only one son who died a minor, the younger branch of Seymour Somerset became extinct, and sir Edward Seymour of the elder branch succeeded to the dukedom; it having been settled in the patent that the sons of the second wife should inherit first. Her grace was one of the ladies of the bedchamber to queen Caroline, and appears to have lived in the greatest conjugal harmony with duke Algernon, and to have conducted herself through the whole tenor of her life with becoming dignity and affability. After the demise of the duke in 1750, she lived in retirement at Percy Lodge, near Colnbrook, till her own death on July 7, 17543. On the loss of her son George, viscount Beau • Bolton's Extinct Peerage, p. 264. |