This article is about the Duchess. For the actress with a similar name, see Elizabeth Berkley.
Elizabeth Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort (néeBerkeley; c. 1713 – 9 April 1799) was born in Stoke Gifford in Gloucestershire to John Symes Berkeley and Elizabeth Norborne.[1] Her younger brother was Norborne, Lord Botetourt.
Elizabeth Somerset, née Berkeley, Duchess of Beaufort, painting attributed to Michael Dahl
A stone monument to the memory of her daughter Lady Elizabeth Somerset is located in Stoke Park, Bristol. It is engraved with the Latin inscription:[4]
ELIZABETHA SOMERSET CAROLI DUCIS BEAUFORT FILIA SECUNDA HIC OBIIT VII MAII MDCCLX RESTITUTUM ANNO MMIV
This translates as 'Elizabeth Somerset, second daughter of Charles Duke of Beaufort, died here 7 May 1760. Restored in the year 2004'. She was killed when her horse shied.
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^G. E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 54-55
^Matthew, H. C. G.; Harrison, B., eds. (23 September 2004), "Lady Mary Isabella Somerset in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/68363, retrieved 30 May 2023
^Rawnsley, Hardwicke Drummond (1877). A Book of Bristol Sonnets. Hamilton, Adams.
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