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Marcia Amelia Mary Pelham, Countess of Yarborough and 13th Baroness Conyers and 7th Baroness Fauconberg, OBE (18 October 1863 – 17 November 1926)[1] was a British peer who worked in politics for the Conservative Party.
The Countess of Yarborough | |
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 The Countess of Yarborough as Countess Tchoglokov at the Devonshire House Ball of 1897 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Marcia Amelia Mary Lane-Fox 18 October 1863 |
| Died | 17 November 1926 (aged 63) Lincolnshire, England |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse | |
| Relations | Violet Herbert, Countess of Powis (sister) |
| Children | Charles Pelham, Lord Worsley Sackville Pelham, 5th Earl of Yarborough D'Arcy Francis Pelham Marcus Pelham, 6th Earl of Yarborough |
| Parent(s) | Sackville Lane-Fox, 12th Baron Conyers Mary Curteis |
| Residence | Brocklesby Park |
Marcia was born on 18 October 1863. She was the eldest daughter of Sackville Lane-Fox, 12th Baron Conyers (1827–1888) and his wife, Mary Curteis (d. 1921).[2] Her brother Sackville FitzRoy Henry Lane-Fox died unmarried in 1879 (before their father's death) and her sister was Violet Herbert, Countess of Powis, later suo jure Baroness Darcy de Knayth.[2]
In 1888, the countess's father died and his title fell into abeyance, but the abeyance was terminated in her favour four years later. Eleven years later, in 1903, the barony of Fauconberg, a peerage which had been in abeyance since the death of the last holder, the 6th Baroness Fauconberg, in 1490, was also called out of abeyance for Marcia Pelham. At the same time the House of Lords found that her father had held the barony of Darcy de Knayth and confirmed it in favour of her sister, Violet Herbert, Countess of Powis.[3] Due to the peerages which thus came to her, Marcia Pelham brought 153 armorial quarterings to her husband's family.
In 1920, the countess was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of her role as Commandant of Brocklesby Hall, her husband's ancestral home, which had served as an auxiliary hospital during the First World War.[3]
On 5 August 1886, she married Charles Pelham, 4th Earl of Yarborough (1859–1936). He was a son of Charles Anderson-Pelham, 3rd Earl of Yarborough and Lady Victoria Alexandrina Hare, the fourth daughter of William Hare, 2nd Earl of Listowel. After the 3rd Earl's death in 1875, his widow married John Maunsell Richardson, a Cambridge cricketer and Member of Parliament for Brigg. Together, Charles and Marcia Yarborough were the parents of four sons:[4]
Marcia Yarborough died of sleeping sickness at Brocklesby on 17 November 1926.[5][1] Her peerages were inherited by the elder of her two surviving sons, Sackville.[3]
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