Sir Frederick Graham, 3rd Baronet explained
Sir Frederick Ulric Graham, 3rd Baronet, (2 April 1820 – 8 March 1888) was a British diplomat, soldier and landowner.
Early life
The descendant of an old Cumbrian family seated at Netherby Hall, Frederick Ulric was born on 2 April 1820. He was the eldest son of Fanny Callander and Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet, the British statesman who served as Home Secretary and First Lord of the Admiralty. A notable ancestor was Richard Graham, 1st Viscount Preston. He was a brother to Constance Helena Graham, Mabel Violet (wife of William Duncombe, 1st Earl of Feversham), Rev. Reginald Malise Graham, Helen Graham and James Stanley Graham.
His paternal grandparents were Sir James Graham, 1st Baronet and Lady Catherine Stewart (eldest daughter of John Stewart, 7th Earl of Galloway). His maternal grandparents were Col. Sir James Callander of Ardkinglas and Lady Elizabeth Helena McDonnell (a daughter of Alexander McDonnell, 5th Earl of Antrim).
Career
Graham was a Cornet in the 1st Life Guards and a Captain in the Westmorland Yeomanry Cavalry. Entering the Diplomatic service, he served as attaché to Vienna in 1842 while his father was Home Secretary. In 1847, he travelled on a hunting expedition across western Canada, documented in Notes of a Sporting Expedition in the Far West of Canada (published posthumously by Lady Graham in 1898).[1] [2]
Upon his father's death on 25 October 1861,[3] he succeeded as the 3rd Baronet Graham, of Netherby, Cumberland. He qualified as a magistrate for the county of Cumberland in 1861, served as Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for Cumberland, and High Sheriff of Cumberland in 1866.[4]
Personal life
In 1852, Graham married Lady Jane Hermione Seymour, daughter of Edward St Maur, 12th Duke of Somerset and his wife Jane Georgiana Sheridan – the Eglinton 'Queen of Beauty'.[5] [6] Together, they were the parents of:
- Margaret Frances Graham (1857–1927), who married Alexander Æneas Mackintosh, 27th Chief of Clan Mackintosh in 1875.[7] After his death, she married James Grimston, 3rd Earl of Verulam in 1878.[8]
- Violet Hermione Graham, Duchess of Montrose (1854–1940), who married Douglas Graham, 5th Duke of Montrose in 1876.[9]
- Sibyl Marcia Graham (1857–1887), who married Robert Crewe-Milnes, 2nd Baron Houghton (later 1st Marquess of Crewe) in 1880.[6]
- Sir Richard James Graham, 4th Baronet (1859–1932), who married his cousin, Olivia Baring, sister of Sir Godfrey Baring, 1st Baronet. After her death in 1887, he married his first cousin, Lady Mabel Cynthia Duncombe, a daughter of William Duncombe, 1st Earl of Feversham.[10] After her death in 1926 he married his younger brother's widow, Florence Rose Wood.[11]
- Hugh Graham (1860–1921), who married American heiress Jessie Low, a daughter of Andrew Low of Savannah, Georgia,[12] and sister in law to Juliette Gordon Low, in 1888.[13]
- James Reginald Graham (1864–1910), who married Florence Rose (Wood), a daughter of J. Carter Wood and widow of Capt. Cyprian Knollys.[6]
- Hilda Georgina Graham (d. 1946), who married George Faber, 1st Baron Wittenham.[6]
Sir Frederick died at his London residence, 40 Park Lane, on 8 March 1888.[14] Lady Jane died on 4 April 1909.
Descendants
Through his eldest daughter's first marriage, he was a grandfather of Eva Hermione Mackintosh (1876–1934), who married Sir Godfrey Baring, 1st Baronet (the brother of her uncle's first wife Olivia).[15]
Through his son Hugh, he was posthumously a grandfather to Alastair Hugh Graham (1904–1982), an Oxford friend of Evelyn Waugh who was considered an inspiration for Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited.[16] [17]
Notes and References
- Web site: Peel 243: Graham, Frederick Ulric (Sir), Notes of a sporting expedition in the far West of Canada, 1847 (1898) . 2023-01-28 . peel.library.ualberta.ca.
- Web site: Sir Frederick Ulric Graham (1820-1888) Special Collections Library University of Leeds . 2024-07-01 . library.leeds.ac.uk.
- News: Death of Sir James Graham. . 7 February 2022 . . 6 November 1861.
- Book: Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage . 1884 . Kelly's Directories . 230 . 7 February 2022 . en.
- Book: Fox-Davies . Arthur Charles . Armorial Families: A Complete Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, and a Directory of Some Gentlemen of Coat-armour, and Being the First Attempt to Show which Arms in Use at the Moment are Borne by Legal Authority . 1895 . Jack . 426 . 7 February 2022 . en.
- Book: Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage: Comprising Information Concerning All Persons Bearing Hereditary Or Courtesy Titles, Knights, and Companions of All the Various Orders, and the Collateral Branches of All Peers and Baronets . 1902 . Dean & Son, Limited . 262 . 7 February 2022 . en.
- Book: Burke . Bernard . A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland . 1879 . Harrison . 1034 . 7 February 2022 . en.
- Small Talk . The Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality . 1905 . 474 . 7 February 2022 . Ingram brothers . en.
- News: TIMES . Special Cable to THE NEW YORK . DUCHESS OF MONTROSE; Widow of Fifth Duke, Daughter of Sir Frederick Graham, Dies . 7 February 2022 . . 24 November 1940.
- Web site: Lady (Mabel) Cynthia Graham (née Duncombe) . www.npg.org.uk . . 7 February 2022 . en.
- Book: Morris . Susan . Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2019 . 20 April 2020 . eBook Partnership . 978-1-9997670-5-1 . 643–644 . 7 February 2022 . en.
- Book: Depew . Chauncey M. . Titled Americans, 1890: A list of American ladies who have married foreigners of rank . 20 October 2013 . Bloomsbury Publishing . 978-1-78366-005-6 . 7 February 2022 . en.
- News: The marriage of Mr. Hugh Graham, second son of Lady Hermione Graham, and the late Sir Frederick Graham, Bart., of Netherby, and grandson of Sir James Graham, the eminent statesman, with Miss Jessie Low. . 7 February 2022 . . 26 November 1888 . 5.
- News: SIR FREDERICK GRAHAM . 7 February 2022 . The Newcastle Weekly Courant . 16 March 1888 . 4.
- Web site: Eva Hermione (née Mackintosh), Lady Baring . www.npg.org.uk . . 7 February 2022 . en.
- Book: Eade. Philip. Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited. 2016. Hachette UK. 96. 9780297869214. 30 December 2017.
- Book: Lovell . Caroline Couper . The Light of Other Days . 1995 . . 978-0-86554-465-9 . 7 February 2022 . en.
