Henrietta Mildred Hodgson

Henrietta Mildred Hodgson was an English lady with both British royal and American presidential genealogical connections.

Life and family

Born on 6 January 1805 in London Henrietta Mildred was the daughter of Robert Hodgson, Dean of Carlisle from 1820 until his death; and of Mary Tucker, a daughter of Colonel Martin Tucker. Her parents had married in 1804. Her grandfather was another Robert Hodgson, of Congleton in Cheshire. Her youngest brother, George Henry Hodgson, was among the officers of Franklin's lost expedition.
On 18 March 1824 at St George's, Hanover Square, Westminster, she married Oswald Smith, the second son of George Smith. They had seven children:

Isabella Mary Smith m. 1847 Cadogan Hodgson Cadogan.
Oswald Augustus Smith m. 1856 Rose Sophia Vansittart.
Eric Carrington Smith m. 1849 Mary Maberly.
Laura Charlotte Smith m. 1848 Col. Evan Maberly.
Beilby Smith, buried 29 April 1831.
Frances Dora Smith m. 1853 Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne.
Marion Henrietta Smith m.1854 Lt-Col. Henry Dorrien Streatfeild of Chiddingstone Castle.

In 1853, their daughter Frances married Claude Bowes-Lyon, who later became the Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne. Frances became the paternal grandmother of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, a great-grandmother of Elizabeth II, and great-great-grandmother of Charles III.
Henrietta Mildred Hodgson was the granddaughter of Mildred Porteus, who had married Robert Hodgson, and was herself the granddaughter of Robert and Mildred Porteus, of Virginia, who in 1720 moved to Yorkshire. The earlier Mildred Porteus was the daughter of John and Mary Smith, Mary being a daughter of Augustine Warner Jr. and a sister of Mildred Warner, who married Lawrence Washington and was the grandmother of the first U.S. president, George Washington.
Henrietta Mildred Smith died on 19 November 1891. At her death, her memorial in All Saints' Church, Sanderstead in Surrey, states she had 111 living descendants.