Amabel Hume-Campbell, 1st Countess de Gray

Lady Amabel (left) with her sister Lady Mary Jemima around 1760

Amabel Hume-Campbell, 1st Countess de Gray (born Yorke , born January 22, 1751 , † May 4, 1833 in London ) was a British peeress .

Life

She was the elder daughter of Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke (1720-1790), and Jemima Campbell, 2nd Marchioness Gray (1722-1797). She was trained and educated by private tutors.

On August 17, 1780 she married Alexander Hume-Campbell, 1st Baron Hume of Berwick (1750-1781), son and heir of Hugh Hume-Campbell, 3rd Earl of Marchmont (1708-1794). Her husband died on March 9, 1781 and the marriage remained childless.

She was close to the Whigs' party and was active as a writer on political issues, especially the French Revolution .

When her mother died in 1790, she inherited the title of 5th Baroness Lucas , of Crudwell in the County of Wiltshire. From her father's estate, she inherited the family estate Wrest Park in Bedfordshire , the town residence on St. James's Square in London's West End , and other properties in Cambridge . On October 25, 1816, she was raised to Countess de Gray , of Wrest in the County of Bedford. Because of her childlessness she was given the title with the special addition that it was hereditary to her younger sister Lady Mary Jemima Yorke (1757-1830), wife of Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham , and their male descendants.

When she died in 1833, she bequeathed her collection of 4,000 etchings to the British Museum . Since her sister had died in 1830, her two nobility titles fell to her eldest son Thomas Wedell, 3rd Baron Grantham (1781-1859).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} London Gazette . No. 17172, HMSO, London, September 14, 1816, p. 1767 ( PDF , English).

Web links

• Annabella Yorke, Countess de Gray of Wrest on thepeerage.com
• Lucas of Crudwell, Baron (E, 1663) at Cracroft's Peerage

predecessor	Office	successor
Jemima Yorke	Baroness Lucas 1797-1833	Thomas Wedell
New title created	Countess de Gray 1816-1833	Thomas Wedell