3-052-408 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Her Grace the Duchess of Marlborough, 1880. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. Chancellor. 'The wife of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland is discharging a political, as well as social, humane, and Christian duty, in taking the lead, as she has done, with her proposal of a public subscription to relieve the existing Irish distress. Her Grace...has long since earned, both in Ireland and in England, the reputation of a most benevolent and kind-hearted lady. She is, moreover, an Irishwoman, having been born Lady Frances Anne Emily Vane...[She] was married, on July 12, 1843, to the Marquis of Blandford (John Winston Spencer Churchill), who in 1857 succeeded his father as Duke of Marlborough, being the seventh Duke. They have two sons now living, the present Marquis of Blandford and Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churcliill, M.P. for Woodstock, besides three who died in infancy; and they have six daughters...In the person of her Grace, as we have seen, the Duke of Marlborough has an excellent partner of his important social duties among the Irish people'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.