Mary Fox

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Lady Mary, March 1836
Grave in Kensal Green Cemetery

Lady Mary Fox (born FitzClarence ; December 19, 1798 in Bushy House , Teddington ; † July 13, 1864 ) was an illegitimate daughter of King William IV of Great Britain and his long-time mistress Dorothea Jordan . In later years she became a writer.

Life

Mary FitzClarence was born the fourth child and second daughter of Prince William, Duke of Clarence and his mistress Dorothea Jordan . She was a "good-looking, brown girl with a pleasant face and manners". In 1820, her younger sister Elizabeth was courted by Charles Richard Fox , the eldest and illegitimate son of Lord and Lady Holland . His parents did not consent to the marriage. But four years later they agreed to his marriage to Mary.

Mary and Charles Richard were married on June 19, 1824 in St George's, Hanover Square , London. In 1857 they started their household in Little Holland House . They moved to Canada in September 1829 when her husband returned to active military service.

Mary Fox's father gifted her the second part of the Anthony Roll , which has been owned by the Royal Family since the reign of King Henry VIII , although she probably wasn't interested in the history of the Royal Navy . After the death of her uncle, King George IV. In 1830, her father became King of the United Kingdom and Hanover. Her father wanted her to return to England, so he transferred her husband. On May 24, 1831, she was promoted to the rank of daughter of a marquess .

King William IV died in January 1837 and Lady Mary's cousin Victoria came to the throne. In the same year she published a utopian - feminist horror novel entitled An Account of an Expedition to the Interior of New Holland . In January 1857, Sir Frederic Madden , administrator of the manuscripts at the British Museum , learned that Lady Mary was going to sell the Anthony Roll she had received from her father in exchange for money to build a church or something similar.

For much of her late life she served as the housekeeper at Windsor Castle . She died childless on July 13, 1864. She was buried next to her husband in Kensal Green Cemetery .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Stephen Farrell: FOX, Charles Richard (1796–1873), of 1 Addison Road, Kensington and 33 South Street, Grosvenor Square, Mdx. . In: The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820-1832 . Cambridge University Press . January 2008. Retrieved February 16, 2013.
  2. ↑ a b Knighton, CS, Loades, David: The Anthony Roll of Henry VIII's Navy: Pepys Library 2991 and British Library Additional MS 22047 with related documents . Ashgate Publishing, 2000, ISBN 0-7546-0094-7 .
  3. ↑ a b Mary Fox. In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
  4. ^ Peter Pierce: The Cambridge History of Australian Literature . Cambridge University Press, 2009, ISBN 0-521-88165-X .
  5. ^ Russ Gibson: The diminishing paradise: changing literary perceptions of Australia . Sirius Book, 1984, ISBN 0-207-14926-7 .
personal data
SURNAME Fox, Mary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fox, Lady Mary; FitzClarence, Mary (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION illegitimate daughter of William IV (United Kingdom)
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Bushy House , Teddington
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 1864