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Elizabeth Ravenscroft b. 1544? d. 1588 |
Thomas b. 1577? England d. Aug 1599 Killed in Ireland |
John b. 1579? Sussex Co. England d. Dec 4, 1649 England |
Mary b. 1581? |
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Elizabeth Moore Walley (widow) d. 1600? |
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Lady Alice Spencer Stanley (widow) m. Oct 20, 1600 b. May 4, 1559 Althorp, Northampton, London, England d. Jan 16, 1637 Harefield, Middlesex, London, England |
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Sir Thomas was the Baron of Ellesmere. He was also a Judge and Statesman who
served as Lord Keeper and Lord Chancellor for twenty-one years. |
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His third wife Lady Alice Spencer Stanley
was the widow of Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby, 1559 - 1594.
Thomas purchased the house in Harefield for her in 1601.
She lived here after Thomas died. She is buried nearby in the Church of St Mary the Virgin. |
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Son John married his step-sister, Lady Alice Frances Stanley
in 1602. She was one of the daughters of his step-mother,
Lady Alice Spencer and Ferdinando Stanley. |
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Portrait of (probably) Lady Alice Spencer Stanley painted about 1610. This
painting is in the Weiss Gallery in London. |
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Lady Alice was a well-known patron of the arts...
Excerpt describing these masques from
the book Elizabethan Drama, 1558-1642. |
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Sources: Baker, George B., "Brackley chart", History of the County of Northamptonshire, London, 1822-1841, v.1:564. Culver, Francis B., "Egerton Family", Maryland Hist. Mag., v.35:292-302, 1940. Schelling, Felix E., "The English Masque", Elizabethan Drama, 1558-1642, Houghton Mifflin & Company, New York NY, 1908, pp. 133-134. Weiss Gallery, London, England, website, Portrait of a Lady, probably Alice Spencer (1559-1637). |
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