Elizabeth Wrottesley

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Elizabeth Wrottesley
Portrait of Elizabeth Wrottesley painted by Thomas Gainsborough
Born	(1745-11-01)November 1, 1745
Died	May 25, 1822(1822-05-25) (aged 76)

Elizabeth Wrottesley (1745–1822) was the Duchess of Grafton. She married Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (sometime duke and prime minister) on 24 June 1769 at Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire, England.

Wrottesley was the child of Sir Richard Wrottesley, 7th Baronet.

Wrottesley's portrait was painted by Thomas Gainsborough and hangs in the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne.^[1][2]

Family[]

Wrottesley had the following children:

• Lord Henry FitzRoy (9 April 1770 – 7 June 1828), clergyman; he married Caroline Pigot (died 1 January 1835) on 10 September 1800 and had five children. Ancestor of Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick.
• Lord Frederick FitzRoy (born 16 September 1774; died young).
• Lady Augusta FitzRoy (1779 – 29 June 1839), who married Rev. George F. Tavel (died 1829) on 19 November 1811.
• Lady Frances FitzRoy (1 June 1780 – 7 January 1866), who married the 1st Baron Churchill on 25 November 1800.
• Admiral Lord William FitzRoy (1 June 1782 – 13 May 1857), who married Georgiana Raikes (died 2 December 1861) in 1816 and had two children.
• Lord John Edward FitzRoy (24 September 1785 – 28 December 1856), MP, died unmarried.
• Lady Charlotte FitzRoy (died 23 June 1857).
• Lady Elizabeth FitzRoy (died 13 March 1839), who married her cousin (1773–1837), son of the 1st Baron Southampton, on 4 July 1811.
• Lady Isabella FitzRoy (died 10 December 1866), who married Barrington Pope Blachford (3 December 1783 – 14 May 1816) on 11 August 1812.

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