Emma Andalusia Frere Portman, Viscountess Portman (néeKennedy, formerly Dawson-Damer, Countess of Portarlington; (20 October 1861 – 13 May 1929), styledViscountess Carlow from 1881 until 1892, was an English aristocrat known for her marriages to two different peers.
Emma was born on 20 October 1861. She was the only daughter of Catherine Anne May and Lord Nigel Kennedy. She had two brothers, Fergus de Carrick Frere Kennedy and James Archibald Frere Kennedy, both of whom died unmarried.[1]
Hon. George Seymour Dawson-Damer (1892–1917), a Lieutenant in the 10th Hussars and Dorset Yeomanry who died from wounds received in action in World War I.[5]
Lady Moyra Marjorie Dawson-Damer (1897–1962), who married James Brinsley Peter FitzGerald, son of Peter David FitzGerald (son of Sir Peter FitzGerald, 19th Knight of Kerry), in 1924.[5]
Lord Portarlington died of "congestion of the kidneys" at the Royal Palace Hotel at Ostend, on 31 August 1900 at age 42.[10][11]
Through her daughter Lady Christian, she was a grandmother of Rosemary Lusia Bowes-Lyon (1915–1989), a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II who married Edward Wilfred George Joicey-Cecil, youngest son of Col. Lord John Joicey-Cecil, MP for Stamford (a son of the 3rd Marquess of Exeter), in 1945.[5]
References
↑ Edmund Lodge, compiler, The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire, 80th edition (London: Kelly's Directories Ltd, 1911), page 148.
↑ L. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms (London: Heraldry Today, 1972), page 237.
