Sophia Wykeham, Baroness Wenman

(1790-1870)

LBT ID: SoWykeh1870	B/BAP: 1790 DIED: 1870-08-09
SOURCES: Sir Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry (1871) 2:1558; Thame Local History
Of Thame Park, the daughter of William Wykeham of Swalcliffe; she was considered as a marriage partner for the Duke of Clarence in 1818; in 1830 he raised her to the peerage. She died unmarried.
REFERENCES TO Sophia Wykeham, Baroness Wenman: Lord Folkestone to Thomas Creevey, 23 February [1818] in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch XII: 1817-18