Frances Caroline Wedderburn-Webster

Lady Frances Caroline Wedderburn-Webster (née Annesley; 1793-1837) was the daughter of Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Mountnorris and Sarah, daughter of Sir Henry Cavendish, 2nd Baronet.^[1][2]

Reputedly Lord Byron and the Duke of Wellington were among her lovers, although neither of these affairs may have gone beyond flirtation.^[3] On hearing of her affair with Wellington a jealous Byron penned a poem entitled "When We Two Parted".^[4][5]

Family

On 10 October 1810 Frances married James Wedderburn-Webster,^[6] known as "Bold" Webster. They had five children:

• Lucy Sarah Anne (1812–1864)^[7]
• Charles Byron (born 1815–1817).^[8] Born in Paris on 28 August 1815 he died at Nantes on October 1817. He was buried in Caen Cathedral, where there is a monument to him.^{[8][lower-alpha 1]}
• Charles Francis (1820–1886)^[7]
• Augustus George (1821–1845)^[8]
• George Gordon Trophime-Gérard de Lally-Tollendal (1827–1875)^[8]

Notes

1. Frances was heavily pregnant with a child, which was christened Charles Byron, when she attended the Duchess of Richmond's ball and sat next to the Duke of Wellington.

1. Lundy 2014a, p. 59843 § 598429 cites Mosley 2003, p. 3976
2. Lundy 2014b, p. 25515 § 255142 cites Mosley 2003, p. 4095
3. Byron & Marchand 1976, p. 28.
4. MacCarthy 2014, pp. 327.
5. Brinkley & Hanley 1992, pp. 191–192.
6. Lodge 1839, p. 358.
7. Wedderburn 1898, p. 335.
8. Wedderburn 1898, p. 334.

References

• Brinkley, Robert; Hanley, Keith (1992), Romantic Revisions, Cambridge University Press, p. 191, ISBN 978-0-521-38074-4
• Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron; Marchand, Leslie Alexis (1976), "So Late Into the Night": 1816-1817, Harvard University Press, p. 28, ISBN 978-0-674-08945-7
• Lodge, Edmund (1839), The Peerage of the British Empire as at Present Existing: Arranged and Printed from the Personal Communications of the Nobility, Saunders and Otley, p. 358
• Lundy, Daryl (14 November 2014a), Lady Frances Caroline Annesley, p. 59843 § 598429, retrieved June 2015 Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
• Lundy, Daryl (14 November 2014b), Hon. Sarah Cavendish, p. 25515 § 255142, retrieved June 2015 Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
• MacCarthy, Fiona (2014), Byron: Life and Legend, Hodder & Stoughton, p. 327, ISBN 978-1-4447-9987-3
• Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003), Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage (107th in 3 volumes ed.), Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage, pp. 3976, 4095
• Wedderburn, Alexander Dundas Ogilvy (1898), The Wedderburn book: a history of the Wedderburns in the counties of Berwick, and Forfar, Printed for private circulation