Ada Sudeley

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Ada Hanbury-Tracy, Baroness Sudeley
Born21 June 1848
Died6 January 1928 (1928-01-07) (aged 79)
NationalityBritish

Ada Maria Katherine Hanbury-Tracy, Baroness Sudeley (née Tollemache; 21 June 1848 – 6 January 1928) was a British author.

Life[edit]

She was born in 1848. She was the only daughter of Isabella and Frederick Tollemache and niece of Lionel Tollemache, 8th Earl of Dysart.

In 1868 she married Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 4th Baron Sudeley in the Chapel at Ham House.[1] He served in the House of Lords and was a fellow of the Royal Society.[2]

In 1890 she published her book Ham House, Belonging to the Earl of Dysart.[3]

Her husband was bankrupt by 1893 and they had to sell Toddington Manor.[4] Her husband died in 1922[2] and their eldest son William inherited the title - she died in 1928.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Rowell, Christopher, ed. (2013). Ham House : 400 years of collecting and patronage. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300185409.
  2. ^ a b "Lord Sudeley, F.R.S". Nature. 110 (2773): 851. December 1922. Bibcode:1922Natur.110R.851.. doi:10.1038/110851b0. ISSN 1476-4687.
  3. ^ Baroness Ada Hanbury-Tracy Sudeley (1890). Ham House, Belonging to the Earl of Dysart.
  4. ^ Biography of Lord Sudeley by his great-grandson Merlin Hanbury-Tracy, 7th Baron Sudeley Archived 22 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine

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