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

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

  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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