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The Right Honourable Frances, Lady Dynevor (born Frances FitzRoy; January 2, 1803 – April 30, 1878) was a British noblewoman and the wife of George Rice-Trevor, 4th Baron Dynevor.
She was born into the prominent FitzRoy family, the eldest daughter of General Lord Charles FitzRoy and his second wife, Lady Frances Anne Stewart. Her grandfather was Augustus Henry FitzRoy, the 3rd Duke of Grafton.
The lithograph was probably made during the time she married Colonel George Rice-Trevor (then the Honourable George Rice) on November 27, 1824. Her husband served as a Member of Parliament for Carmarthenshire and succeeded to the barony as the 4th Baron Dynevor in 1852.
The couple had five daughters, including:
o Hon. Frances Emily Rice-Trevor (d. 1863), who married Captain Edward ffolliott Wingfield.
o Hon. Caroline Elizabeth Anne Rice-Trevor (1827–1887), who became Baroness Deramore through her marriage to Thomas Bateson.
Lady Dynevor died at the age of 75 at her residence in Prince’s Gardens, Hyde Park, London. She was interred in the family vault at Bromham Parish Church in Bedfordshire.
Upon her husband’s succession to the peerage in April 1852, she was styled as Baroness Dynevor of Dynevor. Following his death in 1869, she became the Dowager Lady Dynevor. Because the couple had no sons, the barony passed to her husband’s cousin, the Reverend Francis William Rice, while the family estates were largely inherited by their daughters.
