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Lady Frances Caroline Wedderburn-Webster (née Annesley; 1793–1837) was the daughter of Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Mountnorris and Sarah, daughter of Sir Henry Cavendish, 2nd Baronet.[1][2]Reputedly Lord Byron and the Duke of Wellington were among her lovers, although neither of these affairs may have gone beyond flirtation.{{sfn|Byron|Marchand|1976|p=28}} On hearing of her affair with Wellington, a jealous Byron penned a poem entitled "When We Two Parted".{{sfn|MacCarthy|2014|pp=327}}{{sfn|Brinkley|Hanley|1992|pp=191–192}} She gave her first son "Byron" as a middle name, and a later son she named "George Gordon". The 2008 book Byron and the Websters : the letters and entangled lives of the poet, Sir James Webster and Lady Frances Webster describes more of their lives.[3] She also took as her lover the Regency dandy Scrope Berdmore Davies.[4] FamilyOn 10 October 1810 Frances married James Wedderburn-Webster,{{sfn|Lodge|1839|p=358}} known as "Bold" Webster. They had five children: - Lucy Sarah Anne (1812–1864){{sfn|Wedderburn|1898|p=335}}
- Charles Byron (born 1815–1817).{{sfn|Wedderburn|1898|p=334}} Born in Paris on 28 August 1815 he died at Nantes on October 1817. He was buried in Caen Cathedral, where there is a monument to him.{{sfn|Wedderburn|1898|p=334}}{{efn|Frances was heavily pregnant with a child, which was christened Charles Byron, when she attended the Duchess of Richmond's ball and sat next to the Duke of Wellington.}}
- Charles Francis (1820–1886){{sfn|Wedderburn|1898|p=335}}
- Augustus George (1821–1845){{sfn|Wedderburn|1898|p=334}}
- George Gordon Trophime-Gérard de Lally-Tollendal (1827–1875){{sfn|Wedderburn|1898|p=334}} (see Marquis de Lally-Tollendal)
Notes{{notelist}}1. ^{{harvnb|Lundy|2014a|p=59843 § 598429}} cites {{harvnb|Mosley|2003|p=3976}} 2. ^{{harvnb|Lundy|2014b|p=25515 § 255142}} cites {{harvnb|Mosley|2003|p=4095}} 3. ^{{cite book|last1=Stewart|first1=John|title=Byron and the Websters : the letters and entangled lives of the poet, Sir James Webster and Lady Frances Webster|date=2008|publisher=McFarland & Co.|location=Jefferson, N.C.|isbn=9780786432400}} 4. ^{{cite web|last1=Peach|first1=Annette|title=Davies, Scrope Berdmore (1782–1852), dandy and friend of Lord Byron|url=https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/59368|publisher=Oxford University Press|accessdate=5 May 2018|language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/59368|date=23 September 2004}}
References- {{citation |last=Brinkley |first=Robert |last2=Hanley |first2=Keith |year=1992 |title=Romantic Revisions|url= |publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-38074-4|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=aog36D94QIMC&pg=PA191 191]}}
- {{citation |last=Byron |first=George Gordon Byron Baron |last2=Marchand |first2=Leslie Alexis |year=1976 |title="So Late Into the Night": 1816-1817 |publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-08945-7|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=iZ-pzMZmXLsC&pg=PA28 28]}}
- {{citation |last=Lodge |first=Edmund |year=1839 |title=The Peerage of the British Empire as at Present Existing: Arranged and Printed from the Personal Communications of the Nobility |publisher=Saunders and Otley |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=eITUAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA358 358]}}
- {{citation |last=Lundy |first=Daryl |date=14 November 2014a |url=http://thepeerage.com/p59843.htm#i598429 |title=Lady Frances Caroline Annesley |page=59843 § 598429 |accessdate=June 2015}}
- {{citation |last=Lundy |first=Daryl |date=14 November 2014b |url=http://thepeerage.com/p25515.htm#i255142 |title=Hon. Sarah Cavendish |page=25515 § 255142 |accessdate=June 2015}}
- {{citation |last=MacCarthy |first=Fiona |year=2014 |title=Byron: Life and Legend |publisher=Hodder & Stoughton |isbn=978-1-4447-9987-3 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=aFFzAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT327 327]}}
- {{citation |editor-last=Mosley |year=2003 |editor-first=Charles |title=Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage |edition=107th in 3 volumes |location=Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A. |publisher=Burke's Peerage |pages=3976, 4095}}
- {{citation |last=Wedderburn |first=Alexander Dundas Ogilvy |year=1898 |title=The Wedderburn book: a history of the Wedderburns in the counties of Berwick, and Forfar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ivM7AAAAMAAJ |publisher=Printed for private circulation}}
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