Frances Anne Emily Vane

1822 - 1899  (77 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Frances Anne Emily Vane  [1]
  Birth	15 Apr 1822	St.James's
  Gender	Female
  Death	16 Apr 1899	50 Grosvenor Square, London, England   [1]
  Burial	Blenheim
  Siblings	5 Siblings
  + 1. Marquess George Henry Robert Charles William Tempest-Stewart,   b. 26 Apr 1821, Wien, Österreich d. 6 Nov 1884  (Age 63 years) ▻ Mary Cornelia Edwards,  m. 3 Aug 1846 + 2. Frances Anne Emily Vane,   b. 15 Apr 1822, St.James's d. 16 Apr 1899, 50 Grosvenor Square, London, England  (Age 77 years) ▻ Duke John Winston Spencer-Churchill,  m. 12 Jul 1843 + 3. Adolphus Frederick Vane,   b. 2 Jul 1825   d. 11 Jun 1864  (Age 38 years) ▻ Susan Charlotte Catherine Pelham-Clinton + 4. Ernest Vane,   b. 29 Feb 1836   d. 14 Aug 1885  (Age 49 years) ▻ Mary Townshend   5. Alexandrina Vane   d. 15 Jan 1874 ▻ Earl Henry Dawson-Damer   6. Adelaide Stewart   d. 3 Feb 1882 ▻ Frederick Law
  Person ID	I39725	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	23 Nov 2001

  
  

  Father	Marquess Charles William Vane,   b. 18 May 1778   d. 6 Mar 1854 (Age 75 years)
  Mother	Frances Anne Emily Vane-Tempest,   b. Abt 1782   d. 20 Jan 1865 (Age 83 years)
  Marriage	1819
  Family ID	F16887	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Duke John Winston Spencer-Churchill,   b. 2 Jun 1822, London, Middlesex, England d. 5 Jul 1883, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England (Age 61 years)
  Marriage	12 Jul 1843	London, Middlesex, England   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Duke George Charles Spencer-Churchill,   b. 13 May 1844, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England d. 9 Nov 1892, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England (Age 48 years) + 2. Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill,   b. 13 Feb 1849, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England d. 24 Jan 1895, Bladon, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England (Age 45 years)   3. Frederick John Winston Spencer-Churchill,   b. 2 Feb 1846   d. Abt 1850 (Age 3 years) + 4. Cornelia Henrietta Spencer-Churchill,   b. 17 Sep 1847, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England d. 22 Jan 1927 (Age 79 years) + 5. Fanny Octavia Louisa Spencer-Churchill,   b. Abt 1853   d. 5 Aug 1904 (Age 51 years) + 6. Anne Emily Spencer-Churchill,   b. 14 Nov 1854, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England d. 20 Jun 1923 (Age 68 years)   7. Charles Ashley Spencer-Churchill,   b. 1856   d. Abt 1858 (Age 2 years)   8. Augustus Robert Spencer-Churchill,   b. 4 Jul 1858   d. Abt 1858   9. Georgiana Elizabeth Spencer-Churchill,   b. Abt 1860   d. 9 Feb 1906 (Age 46 years) + 10. Rosamond Jane Frances Spencer-Churchill,   b. 9 Nov 1850, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England d. 3 Dec 1920 (Age 70 years)   11. Sarah Isabella Augusta Spencer-Churchill,   b. Abt 1865   d. 22 Oct 1929 (Age 64 years)
  Family ID	F16883	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2000

  
  

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• Notes

  Popularly known as "Fanny by the Grace of God" Although his father did not approve, in 1843 she married the future Duke of Marlborough and they became the parents of five sons and six daughters. Like her mother at Wynyard, Duchess Fanny ruled Blenheim with a firm hand and, according to one daughter-in-law, "at the rustle of her silk dress the household trembled". In 1876 her husband was appointed as Viceroy of Ireland, a post which he did not particularly wanted, and she accompanied him to Dublin. During the Marlborough's third year in the Viceregal Lodge there was an exceptionally wet summer, in which the potato crop again failed, the grain would not ripen and the turf could not be dried. Duchess Fanny, described by her grandson Winston as: "a woman of exceptional capacity, energy and decision", threw herself into the work of famine relief, and as a result of her endeavours she was able to raise £ 135,000/-. Furthermore, the administration of the fund and the provision of food, clothing and fuel, was entirely free from sectarian or party influence, Roman Catholics and Protestants being equally represented on the Committee. She may have adored her third son, Lord Randolph, she cared little for her grandson, Winston. When Consuelo, wife of her grandson, came to visit her for the first time, she described Duchess Fanny as having "large prominent eyes, and aquiline nose, and a God-and-my-right conception of life, and left her account of the meeting: " "The Duchess was seated in an armchair in the drawing-room of her house at the corner of Grosvenor Square where she had lived since her widowhood. Dressed in mourning with a little lace cap on her head and an ear-trumpet in her hand, she bestowed a welcoming kiss in a manner of a deposed sovereign greeting her successor. After an embarrassing inspection of my person, she informed me that Lord Rosebery had reported favourably on me after our meeting in Madrid. She expressed great interest in our plans and made searching inquiries concerning the manner of life we intended to live, hoping, she said, to see Blenheim restored to its former glories and the prestige of the family upheld. "I felt that this little lecture was intended to show me how it behoved me to behave. Then fixing her cold eyes upon me she continued. 'Your first duty is to have a child and it must be a son, because it would be intolerable to have that little upstart Winston become Duke. Are you in the family way?' Feeling utterly crushed by my negligence in not having insured Winston's eclipse and depressed by the responsibilities she had heaped upon me, I was glad to take my leave." Not long before she died she handed a letter from Queen Victoria, thanking her for her work in raising such a substantial sum for famine relief in Ireland, to her grandson to have it placed in the family archives and told him, "I may seem a useless old woman now, but this letter will show you I was once of some importance and did good in my day." She survived her husband and all her sons.

  
  

• Sources

  [S14] Brian Tompsett, University of Hull Royal Database (England), (copyright 1994, 1995, 1996 , , Repository: WWW, University of Hull, Hull, UK HU6 7RX bct@tardis.ed.ac.uk).