Adelaide Horatia Elizabeth “Yaddy” Seymour

  General Notes:

Extract from a letter written by Countess St Germans (Jemima Eliot) to her son, dated 31 Jul 1854:
"What do you think of your old friend Yaddy Seymour marrying Lord Spencer! The families like it and you probably know that Lord Spencer's first wife was Lady Clinton's sister. He has one delicate son and one very gentilly daughter who much requires a mother in law to hep her and I trust Yaddy will make a good one. She ought to know what a girl requires in a mother in law."

The remains of Adelaide Countess Spencer were buried on Saturday last in the family vault of the Spencer family at Brington. Earl Spencer, K.G., and the Hon. C. Robert Spencer (only son of the deceased) were the chief mourners. (Western Daily Press, 06 Nov 1877, p7)

DEATH OF THE DOWAGER COUNTESS SPENCER. The death of the Dowager Countess Spencer, took place on Monday at Guilsborough Hall, Northampton. The deceased lady, Adelaide Horatia Elizabeth Countess Spencer, was the only daughter of the late Colonel Sir Horace Beauchamp Seymour, K.C.H., extra equerry to Queen Adelaide, by his first wife, Elizabeth Mallet, daughter of the late Sir Lawrence Palk, Bart. She was born 27th of January, 1825, consequently was in her 53rd year, and married (9th August, 1854) Frederick fourth Earl Spencer, K.G. (as his second wife), by whom, who died on the 27th December, 1857, the Countess leaves issue a daughter, Lady Victoria Alexandrina, to whom her Majesty stood sponsor, born in October, 1855; and son, Hon. Charles Robert, born in October, 1857. The late Countess was sister of Admiral Frederick Beauchamp Seymour, C.B. (Manchester Courier, 03 Nov 1877, p9)

Gravesite Details
Remains disinterred in the 1950s by the Spencers, destroyed (cremated), and re-interred in an urn in the vault.

Adelaide married Frederick Spencer 4th Earl Spencer, son of George John Spencer 2nd Earl Spencer and Lavinia Bingham, on 9 Aug 1854. (Frederick Spencer 4th Earl Spencer was born on 14 Apr 1798 in Greater London, England, christened in St Martin-in-the-Fields, died on 27 Dec 1857 in Althorp, Daventry District, Northamptonshire, England and was buried in St Mary the Virgin with St John Churchyard, Great Brington, Daventry District, Northamptonshire, England.)