British aristocrat and Vicereine of India
Maud Evelyn Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne, VA, CI, GBE, CH, GCStJ (née Hamilton; 17 December 1850 – 21 October 1932), was a British aristocrat and courtier. She was the wife of Henry Charles Keith Petty-FitzMaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Governor General of Canada from 1883 to 1888. She was then Vicereine of India from 1888 to 1894 while her husband was Viceroy.
Marriage
Lady Lansdowne was a daughter of James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn, and Lady Louisa Jane Russell.[1] On 8 November 1869, she married Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, at Westminster Abbey and they had four children:[1]
Later years
From 1905 to 1909 she was a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Alexandra; she was Extra Lady from 1910 to 1925. During the First World War she set up the Officers' Families Fund and served as its president, and she and her husband lent their house, Lansdowne House in Berkeley Square, London, to serve as its headquarters. She had previously done the same in the Second Boer War.[2] She also set up an auxiliary Red Cross hospital in the Orangery at Bowood House on their Wiltshire estate.[3]
For this and other charitable services, she was appointed Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in the 1920 civilian war honours. [4]
Death
She died in 1932, aged 81, and was buried (as her husband had been, five years earlier) at Derry Hill church, at the gates of their Bowood estate.[5]
Ancestry
Ancestors of Maud Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne |
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| | | | | | | | | 16. Captain The Hon. John Hamilton | | | | | | | 8. John Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Abercorn | | | | | | | | | | 17. Harriet Craggs | | | | | | | 4. James Hamilton, Viscount Hamilton | | | | | | | | | | | | 18. Sir Joseph Copley, 1st Baronet | | | | | | | 9. Catherine Copley | | | | | | | | | | 19. Mary Buller | | | | | | | 2. James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 20. James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton | | | | | | | 10. The Hon. John Douglas | | | | | | | | | | 21. Bridget Heathcote | | | | | | | 5. Harriet Douglas | | | | | | | | | | | | 22. Edward Lascelles, 1st Earl of Harewood | | | | | | | 11. Lady Frances Lascelles | | | | | | | | | | 23. Anne Chaloner | | | | | | | 1. Maud Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 24. John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford | | | | | | | 12. Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock | | | | | | | | | | 25. The Hon. Gertrude Leveson-Gower | | | | | | | 6. John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford | | | | | | | | | | | | 26. Willem van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle | | | | | | | 13. Lady Elizabeth Keppel | | | | | | | | | | 27. Lady Anne Lennox | | | | | | | 3. Lady Louisa Jane Russell | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 28. Cosmo Gordon, 3rd Duke of Gordon | | | | | | | 14. Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon | | | | | | | | | | 29. Lady Catherine Gordon | | | | | | | 7. Lady Georgina Gordon | | | | | | | | | | | | 30. Sir William Maxwell, 3rd Baronet of Monreith, Wigtownshire | | | | | | | 15. Jane Maxwell | | | | | | | | | | 31. Magdalen Blair | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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