Eliza Courtney

Eliza Courtney was the illegitimate daughter of the Whig politician and future Prime Minister Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey and the society beauty Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, while Georgiana was married to William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire.

Eliza Courtney was born in France, in AixenProvence onFebruary 1792. She was brought to Falloden, Northumberland in northern England and adopted by her paternal grandparents. Unlike her mothers legitimate children from her marriage, Eliza was not raised as part of the Devonshire House set in London. Her mother, Georgiana, could not acknowledge her daughter and visited her in secret until her own death. Several anguishridden poems from mother to daughter survive two are reproduced below

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