Daughter of Cecil Weld-Forester, 1st Baron Forester, and Lady Katherine Mary (née Manners) Weld-Forester.
Married George Stanhope 6th Earl of Chesterfield, in 1830, died 1866
Children:
George Phillip Cecil Arthur Stanhope, 7th Earl of Chesterfield (1831-1871)
Lady Evelyn Georgina Katherine Stanhope (1834–1875)
After her husband died, she continued to live at Bretby Hall in Derbyshire.
Like her sister Selina, Countess of Bradford, she was an intimate friend of Benjamin Disraeli. After they had both been widowed Disraeli is said to have proposed to her, but she declined, saying that people over 70 would be foolish to marry. Some of their friends thought that she refused him because she believed that he cared more for her sister.
Daughter of Cecil Weld-Forester, 1st Baron Forester, and Lady Katherine Mary (née Manners) Weld-Forester.
Married George Stanhope 6th Earl of Chesterfield, in 1830, died 1866
Children:
George Phillip Cecil Arthur Stanhope, 7th Earl of Chesterfield (1831-1871)
Lady Evelyn Georgina Katherine Stanhope (1834–1875)
After her husband died, she continued to live at Bretby Hall in Derbyshire.
Like her sister Selina, Countess of Bradford, she was an intimate friend of Benjamin Disraeli. After they had both been widowed Disraeli is said to have proposed to her, but she declined, saying that people over 70 would be foolish to marry. Some of their friends thought that she refused him because she believed that he cared more for her sister.
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