Hon. Frances Brooke
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Hon. Frances Brooke (1640 – c. 1690) was a British courtier. She was styled Hon. Frances Brooke, and then Lady Whitmore. She was granted the style of a daughter of a baron.[1]
Frances and her sister Margaret , Lady Denham, were two of the Windsor Beauties, painted by Sir Peter Lely for Anne Hyde, Duchess of York.[2] Her daughter Frances was one of the Hampton Court Beauties.
Family
Her father was Sir William Brooke (1601–1643), and her mother was Penelope Hill ( -c.1694), daughter of Sir Moyses Hill of Hillsborough, County Down and his first wife Alice McDonnell.
She first married Sir Thomas Whitmore ( -1682), younger son of Sir Thomas Whitmore, 1st Baronet and Elizabeth Acton, (married some time before 1665). She then married Matthew Harvey ( -c.1693/94) (married some time after 1682).[3]
Frances had three children with her first husband, Sir Thomas Whitmore:
- Henrietta Whitmore.
- Frances Whitmore (7 November 1666 – 1695).
- Dorothy Whitmore (1668–1688).
References
- ^ http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/CobhamK1313.htm
- ^ The Royal Collection, The Royal Collection
- ^ "Hon. Frances Brooke". The Peerage. 14 May 2010.