Cassandra Willoughby Duchess Of Chandos
Cassandra Willoughby, Duchess of Chandos (23 April, 1670 - July 16, 1735) was a British historian, travel writer and artist. She was the daughter of Francis Willoughby of Wollaton, Nottinghamshire, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and a writer on natural history, and his wife Emma, the daughter of Sir Henry Barnard of Bridgnorth, Shropshire and London. In 1713, at the age of forty-three, Cassandra became the second wife of her wealthy cousin, James Brydges, FRS, whose mother was a Barnard. Brydges' social standing rose the following year when he was made Earl of Carnarvon and inherited a barony and baronetcy when his father, the 8th Baron Chandos of Sudeley, died; in 1719 he became Duke of Chandos, and Cassandra the Duchess.
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