Mary Waldegrave, Countess Waldegrave
Mary Waldegrave, Countess Waldegrave, DBE (née Mary Dorothea Palmer; 25 March 1850 – 8 November 1933) was a British peeress.[1]
Biography
[edit]She was the daughter of Roundell Palmer (later Earl of Selborne) and his wife, Laura, a daughter of the 8th Earl Waldegrave. She was known to family and friends as "May".
On 5 August 1874, she married her first cousin, William Waldegrave, 9th Earl Waldegrave. Lord and Lady Waldegrave had three children:
- Lady Mary Wilfreda (1875–1947)
- Lady Laura Margaret (1880–1959)
- William Edward Seymour, later 10th Earl Waldegrave (1882–1933)
In the 1918 Birthday Honours, Mary Waldegrave, Countess Waldegrave, was appointed a DBE for her work as Deputy President of the Somerset branch of the British Red Cross Society during World War I.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Mary Lady Waldegrave". The Times. 10 November 1933. p. 16.
- ^ "No. 30730". The London Gazette (Supplement). 7 June 1918. p. 6687.
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