Lady Charlotte Innes-Ker
(1841-1811)
19 June 1861

Volume 4, page 105, sitting number 4491.

Lady Charlotte Isabella Innes-Ker was born in Scotland on 8 August 1841, the second daughter and third child of James Henry Robert Innes-Ker, the 6th Duke of Roxburghe, and his wife Susanna Stephania née Dalbiac, who for many years was a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria.

On 28 October 1862 she married George Russell, son of William Russell, a nephew of the Duke of Bedford.  ‘The marriage of Mr George Russell, son of Mr Russell, auditor-general of the Court of Chancery, and private secretary of Earl Russell, to Lady Charlotte Innes-Ker, younger daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Ruxburghe, took place in the Episcopal Chapel, at Keslo, Roxburghshire, N.B., on Tuesday last, in the presence of a numerous and distinguished assemblage of guests from Floors Castle, the residence of the noble parents of the bride, and a considerable number of the more influential residents of Kelso, and was accompanied with congratulatory demonstrations by very many of the inhabitants, by whom the noble family of Roxburghe is held in high esteem’ (Morning Star, 30 October 1862).

Their marriage produced two sons and one daughter.

In 1871 the Russells and their young son George were staying in Hastings at the house of Lord Londesborough.

Lady Charlotte Russell died, aged 39, on 24 April 1881 at her residence in Paris.

‘Lady Charlotte Isabella Innes-Ker [sic], younger daughter of the late Duke and the present Dowager-Duchess of Roxburghe, died at Paris on Sunday night, after a few day’s illness, the cause of death, it is said, having been pneumonia. […] The deceased is survived by her husband and a young family of three, two sons and daughter (Dundee Evening Telegraph, 26 April 1881).

She was buried ‘within the precincts of Kelso Abbey, where the remains of an infant daughter of the deceased had previously been entombed’ (Edinburgh Evening News, 2 May 1881).