Elizabeth FitzRoy, Duchess of Grafton
Elizabeth FitzRoy, Duchess of Grafton was the second wife of Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton. They married on 24 June 1769 at Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire, England, three months after his divorce.
Wrottesley was the daughter of Sir [Richard Wrottesley, 7th Baronet] and Lady Mary Leveson-Gower. Her uncle was the Duke of Bedford, who introduced her to Thomas Gainsborough; Gainsborough painted her portrait which now hangs in the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne.
Family
Wrottesley had thirteen children of whom nine survived:- Lord Henry FitzRoy, clergyman; he married Caroline Pigot on 10 September 1800 and had five children. Ancestor of Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick.
- Lady Charlotte FitzRoy
- Lord Frederick FitzRoy.
- Lady Augusta FitzRoy, who married Rev. George F. Tavel on 19 November 1811.
- Lady Frances FitzRoy, who married the 1st Baron Churchill on 25 November 1800.
- Admiral Lord William FitzRoy, who married Georgiana Raikes in 1816 and had two children.
- Lord John Edward FitzRoy, MP, died unmarried.
- Lady Isabella FitzRoy, who married Barrington Pope Blachford on 11 August 1812.
- Lady Elizabeth FitzRoy, who married her cousin Lt. Gen. The Hon. William FitzRoy, son of the 1st Baron Southampton, on 4 July 1811.