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Marchioness of Waterford Florence Grosvenor <I>Rowley</I> de la Poer Beresford

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Marchioness of Waterford Florence Grosvenor Rowley de la Poer Beresford

Birth
Death
4 Apr 1873 (aged 35–36)
Greater London, England
Burial
Portlaw, County Waterford, Ireland Add to Map
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Marchioness of Waterford. The daughter of Major George Rowley of the Bombay Cavalry and Emily Isabella Honner (a Cork lady), she first married widower, Captain Hon. John Cranch Walker Vivian on June 18th, 1861 – an English Liberal politician, who was elected to the House of Commons a few times between 1841 and 1871. In 1868 he had moved to Lord of the Treasury, They were divorced in August 1869. In August 1872, she married the 5th Marquis of Waterford. Bearing the title, Earl of Tyrone, from 1859 to 1866, he was an Irish peer and a Conservative politician. Lady Florence died in childbirth in London on April 4th, 1873. Her remains and that of her still-born child are buried directly outside the front of Clonagam church, under a simple headstone, in that area reserved for the Curraghmore family. Inside the church is a carved marble memorial image of her and a child.
Marchioness of Waterford. The daughter of Major George Rowley of the Bombay Cavalry and Emily Isabella Honner (a Cork lady), she first married widower, Captain Hon. John Cranch Walker Vivian on June 18th, 1861 – an English Liberal politician, who was elected to the House of Commons a few times between 1841 and 1871. In 1868 he had moved to Lord of the Treasury, They were divorced in August 1869. In August 1872, she married the 5th Marquis of Waterford. Bearing the title, Earl of Tyrone, from 1859 to 1866, he was an Irish peer and a Conservative politician. Lady Florence died in childbirth in London on April 4th, 1873. Her remains and that of her still-born child are buried directly outside the front of Clonagam church, under a simple headstone, in that area reserved for the Curraghmore family. Inside the church is a carved marble memorial image of her and a child.


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