Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire
The Loudoun memorial stands at the junction of South Street and Bath Street. It is a memorial to Edith Maud Hastings, Countess of Loudoun, wife of Charles Frederick Clifton, later 1st Baron Donington, and sister of the 4th Marquis of Hastings. It cost £3000 and was unveiled on 24th July 1879 to "commemorate the general estimation" in which the Countess was held by the townspeople. It was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, in the style of an Eleanor Cross on the site of the communal well known as "Gawby's Hole" a place where the town gossips met and collected their water. Benjamin Disraeli is said to have penned the inscription on the side of the monument. "In memory of Edith Maud , Countess of Loundoun in her own right, Baroness of Botreaux , Hungerford e Moleyns and Hastings, who spring from an illustrious ancestry herself, possessed their noblest qualities. The people of Ashby de la Zouch, and its neighbourhood have raised this cross, a tribute of admiration and of love 1874 "
(Edith Maud in 1833 - 1874 was the daughter of of George Augustus Francis Rawdon Hastings, Marquis of Hastings. Earl of Loudoun, Moira and Rawdon. Baron Hastings www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/SEUu5w by Barbara only daughter and heiress of Henry Yelverton, 19th Baron Grey de Ruthyn & Anna Maria daughter of William Kelham;
She m 1853 Charles Clifton who took the name Abney-Hastings, as a condition of inheriting from a second cousin Sir Charles Abney-Hastings a natural grandson of the 10th Earl of Huntingdon (brother of Lady Edith's grandmother)
Children
1. Lady Flora Paulyna Hetty Barbara Abney Hastings (1854–1887), m Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk
2. Charles Edward Hastings Clifton, 11th Earl of Loudoun (1855–1920)
3, Major Paulyn Francis Cuthbert Rawdon-Hastings (1856–1907), m Lady Maud daughter of James Grimston, 2nd Earl of Verulam
4. Gilbert Theophilus Clifton Clifton-Hastings-Campbell, 3rd Baron Donington (1859–1927) m Maud Kemble www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/z948p8 daughter of Sir Charles Hamilton
5. Henry Cecil Plantagenet Clifton (1860–1886), died young.
6. Lady Egidia Sophia Frederica Christina Clifton (1870–1892), died young.
After her death her widowed husband was created Baron Donington.
Ashby de la Zouch Leicestershire
The RC church of Our Lady of Loudres across the road, www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/348615 was built in memory of her daughter Flora by husband Henry Fitzalan Howard 15th Duke of Norfolk funded partly by the sale of jewellery bequeathed by Flora.)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Rawdon-Hastings,_10th_Countes...
Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire
The Loudoun memorial stands at the junction of South Street and Bath Street. It is a memorial to Edith Maud Hastings, Countess of Loudoun, wife of Charles Frederick Clifton, later 1st Baron Donington, and sister of the 4th Marquis of Hastings. It cost £3000 and was unveiled on 24th July 1879 to "commemorate the general estimation" in which the Countess was held by the townspeople. It was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, in the style of an Eleanor Cross on the site of the communal well known as "Gawby's Hole" a place where the town gossips met and collected their water. Benjamin Disraeli is said to have penned the inscription on the side of the monument. "In memory of Edith Maud , Countess of Loundoun in her own right, Baroness of Botreaux , Hungerford e Moleyns and Hastings, who spring from an illustrious ancestry herself, possessed their noblest qualities. The people of Ashby de la Zouch, and its neighbourhood have raised this cross, a tribute of admiration and of love 1874 "
(Edith Maud in 1833 - 1874 was the daughter of of George Augustus Francis Rawdon Hastings, Marquis of Hastings. Earl of Loudoun, Moira and Rawdon. Baron Hastings www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/SEUu5w by Barbara only daughter and heiress of Henry Yelverton, 19th Baron Grey de Ruthyn & Anna Maria daughter of William Kelham;
She m 1853 Charles Clifton who took the name Abney-Hastings, as a condition of inheriting from a second cousin Sir Charles Abney-Hastings a natural grandson of the 10th Earl of Huntingdon (brother of Lady Edith's grandmother)
Children
1. Lady Flora Paulyna Hetty Barbara Abney Hastings (1854–1887), m Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk
2. Charles Edward Hastings Clifton, 11th Earl of Loudoun (1855–1920)
3, Major Paulyn Francis Cuthbert Rawdon-Hastings (1856–1907), m Lady Maud daughter of James Grimston, 2nd Earl of Verulam
4. Gilbert Theophilus Clifton Clifton-Hastings-Campbell, 3rd Baron Donington (1859–1927) m Maud Kemble www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/z948p8 daughter of Sir Charles Hamilton
5. Henry Cecil Plantagenet Clifton (1860–1886), died young.
6. Lady Egidia Sophia Frederica Christina Clifton (1870–1892), died young.
After her death her widowed husband was created Baron Donington.
Ashby de la Zouch Leicestershire
The RC church of Our Lady of Loudres across the road, www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/348615 was built in memory of her daughter Flora by husband Henry Fitzalan Howard 15th Duke of Norfolk funded partly by the sale of jewellery bequeathed by Flora.)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Rawdon-Hastings,_10th_Countes...