DEATH OF THE DUCHESS DOWAGER OF BEAUFORT
We regret to announce the death of the Dowager Duchess of Beaufort, who expired after a brief illness, on Saturday afternoon, at Westbrook Hall, near Berkhampstead, where the venerable Duchess had been staying with the Hon. Granville Dudley and Lady Georgiana Ryder since the death of her son the late Duke. The deceased Duchess, who was in her 84th year, having been born 11th Jan. 1771, was fifth daughter of Granville, first Marquis of Stafford, and married 11th May, 1791, Henry Charles, sixth Duke of Beaufort, by whom she had a numerous family -- the Marchioness of Cholmondeley, Lord Calthorpe, Lady Elizabeth Orde, Lady Georgiana Ryder, Lady Louisa Finch, and Lady Mary Farquhar, are her surviving children. By the demise of this pious and charitable lady, the families of the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, the Marquis and Marchioness of Westerminster, the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, the Marquis and Marchioness of Cholmondeley, Lord and Lady Raglan, the Earl and Countess of Galloway, Sir Christopher and Georgiana Codrington, Viscount and Lady Blanche Dupplin, the Earl Granville, the Earl and Countess of Harrowby, the Earl and Countess of Ellesmere, and many others of distinction, are placed in mourning.
(Herts Guardian, 22 Aug 1854, Page 2)

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--- "Staffordshire Advertiser" 26 Aug 1854, page 3:
FUNERAL OF THE DUCHESS DOWAGER OF BEAUFORT.---
On the 18th instant, the remains of the late Dowager Duchess of Beaufort were interred in the ancient family vault in Badminton Church. The mourners comprised the Marquis of Cholmondeley, the Earl of Galloway, the Earl of Harrowby, Lord Calthorpe, Sir Walter R. Farquhar, the Hon. Augustus Calthorpe, the Hon. A. Stewart, the Hon. D. Granville Ryder, Colonel Kingscote, Mr. G. Somerset, Mr. Raglan Somerset, Mr. Finch, Mr. George Finch, Master Farquhar, and four of the late duchess's chief domestics. The Duke of Beaufort was unable to be present at the obsequies.