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Alice Maud Olivia Stanley, Countess of Derby (née Montagu; 15 August 1862, Westminster – 23 July 1957, Coworth Park) was born the daughter of the 7th Duke of Manchester and his wife, Countess Louise von Alten. Marriage. On 5 January 1889, she married Lord Stanley of Bickerstaffe.
5 de jul. de 2019 · This is the resting place of Alice Spencer Stanley Egerton, dowager countess of Derby, who died on 26 January 1637. The countess also left her mark a few hundred yards away with almshouses she established in her will, ‘for the relief and maintenance of six poor women of the said parish to reside’. 2
Alice Spencer, Countess of Derby (4 May 1559 – 23 January 1637) was an English noblewoman from the Spencer family and noted patron of the arts. Poet Edmund Spenser represented her as "Amaryllis" in his eclogue Colin Clouts Come Home Againe (1595) and dedicated his poem The Teares of the Muses (1591) to her.
Alice became Countess of Derby upon her husband succeeding to the earldom of Derby on 25th September 1593. She would later retain this title during her second marriage to the 1st Viscount of Brackley, as countess was naturally more prestigious.
11 de abr. de 2023 · Your research introduced you to current members of the Stanley family who live at Knowsley Hall, where Alice Spencer dwelled when she was the Countess of Derby. Could you tell us how that came about and what sources the family made available to you?
This dissertation focuses on the lives of Alice Spencer Stanley Egerton, the dowager countess of Derby (1559-1637), and her three daughters: Anne Stanley Brydges Touchet, Lady Chandos and then dowager countess of Castlehaven (1581-1647), Frances Stanley Egerton, countess of Bridgewater (1583-1636), and Elizabeth Stanley Hastings, countess of ...
This dissertation focuses on the lives of Alice Spencer Stanley Egerton, the dowager countess of Derby (1559-1637), and her three daughters: Anne Stanley Brydges Touchet, Lady Chandos and then dowager countess of Castlehaven (1581-1647), Frances
