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Hon. Catherine „Kitty“ Sarah Dorothea Pakenham (Ehename: Catherine Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington, * 14. Januar 1773; † 24. oder 25. April 1831 in Apsley House, Hyde Park Corner, Mayfair, London, England) war die Tochter von Edward Michael Pakenham, 2. Baron Longford (1743–1792), und Catherine Rowley († 1816).
Catherine Sarah Dorothea Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington (née Pakenham; 14 January 1773 – 24 April 1831), known before her marriage as Kitty Pakenham, was the wife of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington.
14. Jan. 2019 · By Geri Walton | January 14, 2019 | 0. Catherine Sarah Dorothea Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington was commonly known as Kitty Pakenham. She was born in Dublin, Ireland on 14 January 1773 to Edward Pakenham, 2nd Baron Longford and Catherine Rowley. She became “The Honourable Catherine Pakenham” when her father succeeded as the 2nd ...
Originally published in 2011. The marriage of Arthur Wellesley to Catherine Sarah Dorothea Pakenham, third daughter of the Earl of Longford, took place on 10 April, 1796 and may be the strangest marriage I’ve come across in the annals of Georgian, Regency and Victorian alliances.
Hon. Catherine „Kitty“ Sarah Dorothea Pakenham (Ehename: Catherine Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington, * 14. Januar 1773; † 24. oder 25. April 1831 in Apsley House, Hyde Park Corner, Mayfair, London, England) war die Tochter von Edward Michael Pakenham, 2. Baron Longford (1743–1792), und Catherine Rowley
Wellington first courted Catherine (Kitty) Pakenham in Dublin in 1792. He was a debt-ridden 23-year-old captain of light dragoons. Kitty was the 19-year-old daughter of the Earl of Longford, an Irish peer. She was pretty, with a sweet disposition, and she and her suitor had some interests in common, including an enjoyment of music and books ...
Catherine Pakenham, for example, usually known as Kitty, was the sister of the second Earl of Longford, and in 1806 she married the Duke of Wellington, conqueror of Napoleon. History's...
