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Lady Amelia-Anna-Sophia (née Stanley), Countess of Athol

, Wife of 2nd Earl and 1st Marquis of Athol; daughter of 7th Earl of Derby

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Lady Amelia-Anna-Sophia (née Stanley), Countess of Athol

by Alfred Thomas Derby, after Mary Beale
pencil, pen and ink, 1839
NPG D23100

Related People

Anne Ker (née Stanley), Countess of Ancram (aunt)
William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby (grandfather)
James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby (father)
Charles Stanley, 8th Earl of Derby (brother)
William George Richard Stanley, 9th Earl of Derby (nephew)
James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby (nephew)
Catherine Pierrepont (née Stanley), Marchioness of Dorchester (sister)
Hon. Charles-Zedemo Stanley (nephew)
Charlotte Stanley (née de La Trémoille), Countess of Derby (mother)
Sir Robert Stanley (uncle)
Hon. Robert-Thomas Stanley (nephew)
Henrietta Maria Wentworth (née Stanley), Countess of Strafford (sister)
Princess Charlotte Brabantine of Orange-Nassau, Duchess of Thouars (grandmother)

Place

Lancashire

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Anne Pennington

08 June 2021, 22:49

The place here is not Derbyshire. Amelia was the daughter of the 7th Earl of Derby, named after the West Derby Hundred, one of the six subdivisions of the historic county of Lancaster. At that time the Stanleys lived at Lathom House near Ormskirk which is where Amelia was born.

Madelaine Kirke

14 October 2020, 08:15

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