Louisa Jane Hamilton, Duchess of AbercornVA (née Lady Louisa Jane Russell; 8 July 1812 – 31 March 1905) was a member of the British aristocracy. She was the half-sister of Prime Minister
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell.
Louisa was still living at the time of the birth of her great-great-grandson, the future
Prime MinisterAlec Douglas-Home, on 2 July 1903. Her other great-great-grandchildren that she lived to see were
Lady Patricia Herbert, Mildred Egerton, daughter of Lady Bertha Anson, Louisa's great-granddaughter through her grandson
Thomas Anson, 3rd Earl of Lichfield and Guendolen Wilkinson, daughter of Lady Beatrix Herbert, Louisa's great-granddaughter through her granddaughter
Lady Beatrix Lambton.
Death
The Duchess of Abercorn died at Coates Castle,
Coates, West Sussex, England on Friday, 31 March 1905, aged 92. She survived her husband by almost twenty years.
She was interred on 5 April 1905, in
Chenies, Buckinghamshire; she left an estate worth over £24,000.
Titles, honours, and awards
8 July 1812 – 25 October 1832:The Lady Louisa Jane Russell
25 October 1832 – 10 August 1868:The Most Honourable The Marchioness of Abercorn
10 August 1868 – 1881:Her Grace The Duchess of Abercorn
1881 – 31 October 1885:Her Grace The Duchess of Abercorn, VA
31 October 1885 – 31 March 1905:Her Grace The Dowager Duchess of Abercorn
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abG. E. Cokayne, et al., eds, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 1910-1959, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000, volume I, p. 9
^G. E. Cokayne, et al., eds, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 1910-1959, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000, volume VIII, p. 503.