georgiana duchesse de devonshire amanda foreman

The Duchess of Devonshire campaigned for the Whigs-particularly for a distant cousin, Charles James Fox-at a time when the King ( George III) and his Ministers had more direct influence over the House of Commons, principally through their power of patronage. The Spencers and the Cavendishes were Whigs.

She was also an active political campaigner in an age when women's suffrage was still over a century away. The Duchess of Devonshire was a celebrated beauty and a socialite who gathered around her a large circle of literary and political figures-a salon. 'THE DEVONSHIRE, or Most Approved Method of Securing Votes', by Thomas Rowlandson, 1784 The painting was painted just before Georgiana's marriage to the Duke of Devonshire With her siblings, Henrietta and George, by Angelica Kauffmann, c.

Among the descendants of her family are the present Duke of Devonshire (via her great great grand neice) Diana, Princess of Wales, and Sarah, Duchess of York (via her illegitimate daughter Eliza Courtney). Her father, the 1st Earl Spencer, was a great-grandson of the 1st Duke of Marlborough. Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (7 June 1757 – 30 March 1806), formerly Lady Georgiana Spencer, was the first wife of the 5th Duke of Devonshire and mother of the 6th Duke of Devonshire.

Georgiana duchesse de devonshire amanda foreman