| Louisa Cavendish-Bentinck | |
| Birth Name: | Caroline Louisa Burnaby |
| Known For: | Great-grandmother of Elizabeth II |
| Birth Place: | Hungarton, Leicestershire, England |
| Baptised: | 5 December 1832 |
| Death Place: | Dawlish, Devon, England |
| Mother: | Anne Caroline Salisbury |
| Father: | Edwyn Burnaby, of Baggrave Hall |
Caroline Louisa Cavendish-Bentinck (née Burnaby; 23 November 18326 July 1918) was the maternal grandmother of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and a great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II.
Caroline Louisa Burnaby was born at Baggrave Hall, near Hungarton, Leicestershire on 23 November 1832.[1] She was a daughter of Edwyn Burnaby of Baggrave Hall and his wife, the former Anne Caroline Salisbury.[2] She was baptised on 5 December 1832 at Hungarton, Leicestershire.[3] She was a sister of Edwyn Burnaby, a first cousin of Frederick Gustavus Burnaby, and an aunt of Algernon Burnaby.
Louisa Burnaby married the Rev. Charles Cavendish-Bentinck, as his second wife, on 13 December 1859.[4] Rev. Cavendish-Bentinck was the elder son of Lieutenant Colonel Lord Charles Bentinck and Anne Wellesley, formerly Lady Abdy.[5] His paternal grandparents were William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of Great Britain, and Dorothy Cavendish, a daughter of William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire. Together Louisa and Charles were the parents of three children:
After her first husband's death in 1865, she married Henry Warren Scott, the son of Sir William Scott, 6th Baronet, of Ancrum, on 30 September 1870.[4] He died on 23 August 1889 at Forbes House, Ham, Surrey,[7] and was buried in St Andrew's Church, Ham.[8]
Louisa Scott, died aged 85, twice widowed, on 6 July 1918 at Dawlish, Devon.[9]
Through her eldest daughter Cecilia, the Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, she was a grandmother of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and thus the great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II.[10]