Person    | Male  Born 4/4/1818  Died 10/10/1905

Hugh Fortescue, 3rd Earl Fortescue

Categories: Friend / family

Peer and occasional Liberal Party politician. Known as Viscount Ebrington, 1841-61.  Married Georgiana Augusta Caroline Dawson-Damer (1826–66) who gave birth to 14 children, dying on the day the last was born.

His eldest son Hugh, the 4th Earl, was married to Lady Emily Fortescue. Another son Sir John  Fortescue (1859-1933) was married to Lady Winifred Fortescue.

We believe this 3rd Earl was the 'one who loved little children' who was commemorated on the clock tower erected in 1909 by his daughter-in-law, Lady Emily Fortescue. See her page for the evidence. We recognise that love of children was not an attribute much applied to men at the time so it is possible that the reference was to his wife, Georgina, who had borne the 14 children, even though she had died 43 years earlier.

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