Mary Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Mary Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire GCVO CBE ( born July 29, 1895 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire; † 24 December 1988) was a British nobleman and chatelaine ( Mistress of the Robes ) with Queen Elizabeth II 1953 until 1967.
Life
Lady Mary Alice Gascoyne - Cecil is the youngest daughter of four children of James Gascoyne - Cecil politician, 4th Marquess of Salisbury ( 1861-1947 ) and his wife Lady Cicely Alice Gore ( 1867-1955 ), a daughter of Sir Arthur Saunders Gore, 5th Earl of Arran of the Arran Islands and Lady Edith Elizabeth Henrietta Jocelyn.
On April 21, 1917 married Lady Mary Alice Gascoyne - Cecil in London Edward William Spencer Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington ( 1895-1950 ), the eldest son of Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire, and Lady Evelyn Emily Mary FitzMaurice. The marriage produced five children:
- William John Robert (1917-1944), Marquess of Hartington ∞ 1944 Kathleen Agnes Kennedy ( 1920-1948 )
- Andrew Robert Buxton (1920-2004), 11th Duke of Devonshire Deborah Vivien Freeman ∞ 1941 Hon - Mitford (* 1920)
- Mary ( * / † 1922)
- Elizabeth Georgiana Alice (* 1926), maid of honor of Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon ( Mistress of the Robes; 1954-2002 )
- Anne Evelyn Beatrice ( * 1927) ∞ 1949 Michael Lambert Tree ( b. 1921 )
Her husband, who had now inherited from his father the title of Duke of Devonshire, died on 26 November 1950 of a heart attack in the presence of his physician John Bodkin Adams. The Duchess was from 1955 to 1972, Chancellor of the University of Exeter.