Lady Augusta Elizabeth Frederica Stanley (3 April 1822 – 1 March 1876), was daughter of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin and Elizabeth Oswald. She was brought up in Paris after her father died and later served as lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria. She met and married Arthur P. Stanley, Dean of Westminster at the home of Mary Elizabeth Mohl in Paris.[1]
She unveiled Joseph Edgar Boehm's statue of John Bunyan in Bedford in 1874.
Lady Augusta is buried alongside her husband in the Henry VII Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey. A memorial in her honour was commissioned by Queen Victoria and stands at Frogmore.
Bibliography edit
Some of Stanley's letters are published in Letters of Lady Augusta Stanley: A Young Lady at Court 1849-1863 edited by the Dean of Windsor and Hector Bolitho.
References edit
- ^ Waddington, Patrick (2007) [2004]. "Mohl, Mary Elizabeth". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/18880. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
External links edit
- Reynolds, Kim (2004). "Stanley, Augusta Elizabeth Frederica". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/41342. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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