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--- (Daily Telegraph & Courier, London, 13 Jan 1899, page 4):
THE LATE LADY LOUISA FORTESCUE
The slight notice evoked by the death of the distinguished and highly-gifted lady whose name heads this column is not only an illustration of the truth of Rip Van Winkle's aphorism, "How soon we are forgot!" but would also have moved that great lover of Buckinghamshire, the Earl of Beaconsfield, to unlimited scorn.
The Earl always spoke in eulogistic terms of the garden parties at Dropmore, near Maidenhead, over which the Hon. George Fortescue and his wife (who has just passed away) pRESIded. Lady Louisa Fortescue, nee Lady Louisa Ryder, was born in 1813, the youngest daughter of the second Baron and first Earl of Harrowby, who was married in 1795 to Lady Susan Leveson-Gower, daughter of the first Marquis of Stafford.
From this marriage there sprang a large familty, of which but one [sic] survivor is now left, Lady Mary Saurin, who was born in 1801. She married in 1828 Admiral Edward Saurin, R.N., whom his widow, still in the enjoyment of all her faculties, has already survived by twenty-one years, and seems to possess as good a chance of becoming a centenarian in 1901 as anyone of her age now drawing the breath of life. Lady Susan Ryder, another sister of Lady Mary Saurin and Lady Louisa Fortescue, was married to the second Earl Fortescue; another (Lady Georgiana Ryder) was married to John, second Lord Wharncliffe, and was the mother of the present Earl of Wharncliffe; another (Lady Harriet Ryder) married the Rev. Lord Charles Hervey, D.D.; while the youngest (Lady Louisa Ryder) married in 1833 the Hon. George Fortescue, one of the most agreeable and distinguished-looking men of his day, to whom Dropmore descended after the death of Lord and Lady Grenville.
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1813 - 1899 (85 years)
