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William Cornwallis-West F/M Married Mary 'Patsy' Fitzpatrick F | |||||||||||
| Constance Edwina (Shelagh) Cornwallis-West [CFT #13267] Born: 1875 Died: 1970 |
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| Constance and the 2nd Duke had 3 children. Constance Edwina Cornwallis-West was the youngest child of William and Mary "Patsy" FitzPatrick. Her father was Member of Parliament for Denbighshire West and served as Lord-Lieutenant of Denbighshire from 1872 to 1917 and his mother was known as a great beauty and leading socialite. She was very close to her sister, Daisy, Princess of Pless (wife of Hans Heinrich XV von Hochberg). Her brother was George Cornwallis-West, the second husband of Lady Randolph Churchill, mother of Winston Churchill. Her maternal grandfather was Reverend Frederick Fitzpatrick and her paternal grandfather was Frederick Richard West (son of the Hon. Frederick West, younger son of John West, 2nd Earl De La Warr). The Duchess was one of only two women to compete in sailing at the 1908 Summer Olympics as owner and extra crewmember of the 8-metre bronze medal-winning yacht Sorais. She distributed the diplomas of special merit to the competitors of the other Olympic sports on 25 July 1908. Constance was the youngest child of William and Mary (Patsy) FitzPatrick. She married secondly on 14th January 1920 Captain John Fitzpatrick Lewis at Lyndhurst, Hampshire. Constance's great grandfather was Thomas Taylour, 2nd Marquess of Headfort. |
1: 1902 Ursula Mary Olivia Grosvenorc 2: 1904 Edward George Hugh Grosvenorc 3: 1910 Mary Constance Grosvenorc | ||||||||||
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