Relhan Collection : 329 Wendy church. Achievement of Arms of Mary Marchioness of Downshire, Baroness Sandys

Relhan, Richard, 1782-1844

Relhan Collection

<p style='text-align: justify;'><p>Labelled ‘Manor .. Lady .. Wendy’ and underneath on a separate slip of paper,’The Most Honourable Mary Marchioness Dowager of Downshire and Baroness Sandys Lady of the Manor of Wendye.’ The arms and motto Relhan shows are those of the Cavendish Dukes of Devonshire impaling Sandys, so he had mistaken Downshire for Devonshire. The motto ‘<i>Per deum et ferun obtinui’</i> is pencilled underneath. Mary Hill (1764-1836) was born Mary Sandys, daughter of Colonel Martin Sandys, 4th son of <a target='_blank' class='externalLink' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Sandys,_1st_Baron_Sandys'>Samuel Sandys (</a><a target='_blank' class='externalLink' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Sandys,_1st_Baron_Sandys'>325</a><a target='_blank' class='externalLink' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Sandys,_1st_Baron_Sandys'>) </a>and Mary Trumbull. She married <a target='_blank' class='externalLink' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Hill,_2nd_Marquess_of_Downshire'>Arthur Hill, Viscount Fairford</a> and Marquess of Downshire, and had seven children. Her memorial, a white marble tablet mounted on black, is in Ombersley church, Worcs, and records that she died in Roehampton, Surrey and is buried in Easthampstead, Berks. Her husband committed suicide 1801, after his vehement opposition to <a target='_blank' class='externalLink' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of_Union_1800'>Union with Ireland</a>led to conflict with Pitt the Younger’s government. </p><p>Burke’s Peerage 1980; Davis M 2020; Saunders P pers comm; Wikipedia; </p></p>