Eliza Courtney
Deceased Person
1792 – 1859
Who was Eliza Courtney?
Eliza Courtney was the illegitimate daughter of the Whig politician and future Prime Minister Charles Grey and the society beauty Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, while Georgiana was married to William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire.
The Duchess was forced by her husband to relinquish Eliza shortly after her birth, to be raised by Charles Grey's parents. The Duchess came to visit Eliza in secret. Eliza named her firstborn daughter Georgiana.
The name Courtney, extinct since the death of Charles Kelland Courtney in 1761, was derived from her great-uncle, her maternal grandmother's brother, William Poyntz, having married Isabella, sister and co-heiress of the aforementioned Charles Courtney, the last of the west country family of Courtney of Trethurfe and Courtney of Tremeer.
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- Born
- Feb 20, 1792
Aix-en-Provence - Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Children
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Lived in
- Northumberland
- Died
- May 2, 1859
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on July 23, 2013
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