Elizabeth Greville, Countess of Warwick

Elizabeth Greville, Countess of Warwick (c.1721 – 24 February 1800), formerly Elizabeth Hamilton, was the wife of Francis Greville, 1st Earl of Warwick, who was restored to the earldom of Warwick by King George III of the United Kingdom in 1760.[1]

Elizabeth Hamilton, later Countess of Warwick, and her brother William (by William Hoare)

She was the daughter of Lord Archibald Hamilton and his second wife, Jane, a royal mistress.[2]

Elizabeth married the earl, then untitled, on 15 May 1742 at Park Place, Remingham, Berkshire. In 1727, he inherited the title Baron Brooke, as well as Warwick Castle. In 1746, he became Earl Brooke, at which point his wife became a countess.

The couple had eight children:

• Lady Louisa Augusta Greville (1743–c.1779),[3] who married William Churchill and had children[4]
• Lady Frances Elizabeth Greville (1744–1825), who married Sir Henry Harpur, 6th Baronet, and had children
• Lady Charlotte Mary Greville (c.1745–1763), who married John Stewart, 7th Earl of Galloway, and had children
• George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick (1746–1816)
• Lady Isabella Greville, who died young
• Hon. Charles Francis Greville (1749–1809), who died unmarried
• Hon. Robert Fulke Greville (1751–1824), who married, as her second husband, Louisa Cathcart, Countess of Mansfield, and had children
• Lady Anne Greville (1760–1783)

On 20 August 1765 Lady Dalkeith wrote, "Lady Warwick has come to England, was refused admittance at her Lord's House in Hill Street, and has taken lodgings in Kensington."[1] Following the earl's death in 1773, Elizabeth married General Robert Clerk.[5]

She died at her home in Dover Street, London, in her 80th year.

References

1. G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 336.
2. Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes. Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999.
3. "Maker: "Lady Louisa Augusta Greville (1743-1779)"". National Trust Collections. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
4. Fanny Burney; Stewart Cooke (13 October 2011). The Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney: Volume II: 1787. OUP Oxford. pp. 89–. ISBN 978-0-19-926280-9.
5. George Kearsley (1802). Kearsley's Complete peerage, of England, Scotland and Ireland. pp. 117–.