Paul Frecker
Fine Photographs

Countess of Lanesborough
(1808-1870)
19 February 1861

Volume 2, page 219, sitting number 2166. 

Born on 13 February 1808, Frederica Emma Bishop was the youngest daughter of Charles Bishop and his wife Marianne née Freemantle.

She married firstly Sir Richard Hunter of Dulany House, Sussex. On 24 November 1851 at St George's Hanover Square she married secondly George John Danvers Butler, 5th Earl of Lanesborough. This was also the groom's second marriage. 

Lord Lanesborough died, aged 71, on 7 July 1866. 

The Dowager Countess of Lanesborough died, aged 62, at Swithland Hall on 3 October 1870. 

[A portrait of her husband by Silvy appears on page 32 of this section.]

[From an album compiled by Lady Augusta Frances Hoare, wife of Sir Henry Ainslie Hoare, 5th Baronet.]



code: cs1989
Countess of Lanesborough, Lanesborough, Camille Silvy, Silvy