LBT ID: LyBeauc1 | B/BAP: 1760 DIED: 1844-03-02 |
SOURCES: thePeerage.com | |
The daughter of James Denn; in 1780 she married William Lygon, afterwards first Earl
Beauchamp. Thomas Creevey reports that she paid a tidy bribe for the promotion. | |
REFERENCES TO Catherine Pyndar, countess Beauchamp [née Lygon]: Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 13 February 1827 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1:
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