Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Elizabeth Hervey, later Lady Elizabeth Foster ( * 1759 in Derry, Ireland, † March 30, 1824 at Devonshire House, London) was a close friend of Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, and after their death itself Duchess of Devonshire.
Life
Elizabeth was a daughter of Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol ( 1730-1803 ), and his wife Lady Elizabeth († 1800), daughter of Sir Jermyn Davers, 4th Baronet. It was called in the family " Bess ".
1776 married Lady Elizabeth aristocrat Sir John Thomas Foster. They had two sons, Augustus and Frederick, and lived with her parents in 1779 after Ickworth House in Bury St Edmunds. The marriage was not happy and they separated in 1781, after the relationship came with a servant to light. Then John Thomas Foster took over sole education of his sons. 1782 Elizabeth met in Bath, the Duke and Duchess Devonshire, and became a close friend of the Duchess Georgiana ( 1757-1806 ). From that time they lived in a " ménage à trois ", which was for life. Elizabeth gave birth to two children of William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire ( 1748-1811 ), August and Caroline. Elizabeth married in 1809 Duke William Cavendish after the death of his wife. In 1804 she met the French writer Madame de Staël ( 1766-1817 ), with whom she was in a literary correspondence.
You were Ercole Consalvi affairs with (1757-1824), John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset ( 1745-1799 ), Hans Axel, Count von Fersen ( 1755-1810 ), Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond ( 1735-1806 ), and Valentine Quin, 1st Earl of Dunraven and Mount - Earl ( 1752-1824 ) rumored. There is some evidence that Quin fathered an illegitimate son with Elizabeth, the famous physician Frederick Hervey Foster Quin.