Lucy Herbert, Countess of Powis

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Lucy Herbert, Countess of Powis (25 September 1793 – 16 September 1875), formerly Lady Lucy Graham, was the wife of Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis.

File:Frederick Richard Say (1805-1868) - Lady Lucy Graham (1793–1875), Countess of Powis - 1180949 - National Trust.jpg
Lady Lucy Graham (1793–1875), Countess of Powis by Frederick Richard Say (1805-1868)

Lady Lucy was the daughter of James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose, and his wife, the former Lady Caroline Maria Montagu.[1] She married Edward Herbert, Viscount Clive on 9 February 1818.[2] He succeeded to the Powis earldom in 1839, at which point Lucy became Countess of Powis. The couple had seven children:

  • Unnamed daughter Herbert
  • Edward James Herbert, 3rd Earl of Powis (1818–1891)
  • Lady Lucy Caroline Herbert (c.1819–1884), who married Frederick Calvert and had no children
  • Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Herbert (1821–1906), who married Hugh Montgomery and had children
  • Lt.-Gen. Rt. Hon. Sir Percy Egerton Herbert (1822–1876), who married Lady Mary Caroline Louisa Thomas Petty-FitzMaurice and had children
  • Very Rev. Hon. George Herbert (1825–1894), Dean of Hereford, who married Elizabeth Beatrice Sykes and had children
  • Hon. Robert Charles Herbert (1827–1902), who married Anna Maria Cludde and had children
  • Maj.-Gen. William Henry Herbert (1834–1909), who married Sybella Augusta Milbank and had children.
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Powis Castle, Wales.

The Earl of Powis died on 17 January 1848 at his home in Powis Castle after being accidentally shot during a pheasant hunt by one of his sons, the Hon. Robert Charles Herbert, ten days earlier.[3] He was buried at St Mary's Parish Church, Welshpool. The countess herself died in 1875 at Walcot, Shropshire, where the family had another home. A portrait of the countess, at around the time of her marriage, was painted by Frederick Richard Say and is held at Powis Castle.[4] A mineral collection donated to the National Museum of Wales in 1929 by George Charles Herbert, 4th Earl of Powis, Lucy's grandson, was for a time thought to have belonged to her, but was actually the collection made by her predecessor and mother in-law, Henrietta Clive, Countess of Powis.[5]

Arms

Coat of arms of Lucy Herbert, Countess of Powis
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Coronet
of an Earl.
Escutcheon
Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis (Argent on a fess Sable three mullets Or) impaling James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose (Quarterly 1st & 4th Or on a chief Sable three escallops Or 2nd & 3rd Argent three roses Gules barbed and seeded Proper).
Supporters
Dexter an elephant sinister a griffin wings expanded both Argent the latter powdered with mullets and ducally gorged Gules.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Lucy, Countess of Powis, died 1875". Shropshire History. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  2. ↑ Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.
  3. ↑ "CPAT Regional Sites & Monuments Record". Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  4. ↑ "Lady Lucy Graham, Countess of Powis (1793-1875)". National Trust Collections. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  5. ↑ Tom Cotterell. "The Mineral Collection of Lady Henrietta Antonia Clive". National Museum of Wales. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  6. ↑ Burke's Peerage. 1832.
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