Maud Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne explained

Honorific-Prefix:Her Excellency The Most Honourable
The Marchioness of Lansdowne
Birth Name:Lady Maud Evelyn Hamilton
Birth Date:1850 12, df=yes
Birth Place:St George Hanover Square, London, England
Death Place:St George Hanover Square, London, England
Father:James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn
Mother:Lady Louisa Russell
Children:Evelyn Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 6th Marquess of Lansdowne
Lord Charles Petty-Fitzmaurice
Beatrix Beauclerk, Duchess of St Albans
Office:Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Alexandra
Term Start:1905
Term End:1910
Office1:Viceregal-Consort of India
Term Start1:10 December 1888
Term End1:11 October 1894
Predecessor1:The Countess of Dufferin
Successor1:The Countess of Elgin
Monarch1:Queen Victoria

Maud Evelyn Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne, (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:

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.

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.

References

Notes and References

  1. Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke’s Peerage & Gentry. p. 2240. .
  2. News: 16 January 1900. Officers' Families' Fund. 5. The Times.
  3. News: Bowood home front exhibition marking First World War centenary. This is Wiltshire.