Ada Sudeley Explained

Ada Hanbury-Tracy, Baroness Sudeley
Birth Name:Ada Maria Katherine Tollemache
Birth Date:21 June 1848
Birth Place:Ham House, Ham, Surrey
Death Place:Petersham, Surrey
Spouse:Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 4th Baron Sudeley
Nationality:British

Ada Maria Katherine Hanbury-Tracy, Baroness Sudeley (née Tollemache; 21 June 1848 – 6 January 1928) was a British author.

Life

She was born in 1848 at Ham House, the only daughter of Isabella Anne Forbes and Hon. Frederick Tollemache. Her uncle was Lionel Tollemache, 8th Earl of Dysart.

In 1868, she married Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 4th Baron Sudeley in the Chapel at Ham House.[1] He served in the House of Lords and was a fellow of the Royal Society.[2]

In 1890, she published her book Ham House, Belonging to the Earl of Dysart.[3]

Her husband was bankrupt by 1893 and they had to sell Toddington Manor.[4] Her husband died in 1922 and their eldest son William inherited the title. She died in 1928.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Rowell . Christopher . Ham House : 400 years of collecting and patronage . 2013 . Yale University Press . New Haven . 9780300185409.
  2. December 1922. Lord Sudeley, F.R.S. Nature. en. 110. 2773. 851. 10.1038/110851b0. 1922Natur.110R.851.. 1476-4687. free.
  3. Book: Baroness Ada Hanbury-Tracy Sudeley. Ham House, Belonging to the Earl of Dysart. 1890.
  4. http://www.monies.cc/forum/backgrnd/lsudeley.htm Biography of Lord Sudeley by his great-grandson Merlin Hanbury-Tracy, 7th Baron Sudeley