Anne Lennard, Baroness Dacre

Anne Lennard, Baroness Dacre (17 August 1684-26 June 1755) was the daughter of Thomas Lennard, 1st and last Earl of Essex and Lady Anne Palmer.

• She married, firstly, Richard Barrett, son of Dacre Barrett and Lady Jane Chichester, on 15 July 1716 at London, England.[1]
• She married, secondly, Henry Roper, 8th Baron Teynham, son of Christopher Roper, 5th Baron Teynham and Hon. Elizabeth Browne, in March 1717/18.[1]
• She married, thirdly, Hon. Robert Moore, son of Henry Hamilton-Moore, 3rd Earl of Drogheda and Mary Cole, on 16 October 1725 at London, England.[1]
• She died on 26 June 1755 at age 70.2
• From 15 July 1716, her married name became Barrett-Lennard.
• She sold the Chevening estate, Kent for £28,000 in 1717 to James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope.[2]
• From March 1717/18, her married name became Roper.
• From 16 October 1725, her married name became Moore.

She succeeded to the title of 16th Baroness Dacre [E., 1321] in 1741, suo jure, when the abeyance was terminated in her favour.[2]

Child of Anne Lennard, Baroness Dacre and Hon. Robert Moore

• Henry Moore [2]

Child of Anne Lennard, Baroness Dacre and Richard Barrett

• Thomas Barrett-Lennard, 17th Lord Dacre+[2] b. 20 Apr 1717, d. 12 Jan 1786

Children of Anne Lennard, Baroness Dacre and Henry Roper, 8th Baron Teynham

• Hon. Anna Maria Roper+ b. 20 Aug 1719, d. 1782
• Hon. Charles Roper+[2] b. 21 May 1721, d. 4 Feb 1754
• Rev. Hon. Richard Henry Roper+ b. Nov 1723, d. Nov 1810

Citations

• 1. [S37] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 1181. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
• 2. [S37] Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition, volume 1, page 1014.
• From Darryl Lundy's Peerage page on Anne Lennard
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• Anne Lennard, Countess of Sussex (25 February 1661-2 – 16 May 1721-2), formerly Lady Anne Palmer, alias Fitzroy, was the eldest daughter of Barbara Palmer née Villiers, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, and most likely Charles II of England or Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield. ....
• Anne's husband the Earl of Sussex was a "popular but extravagant man"[5] who, by extravagance and losses by gambling, had to sell the estate of Herstmonceaux and others. Lord and Lady Sussex separated in 1688. She was widowed in 1715. ....
• The children of her union with Sussex were two sons, who died in infancy; and two daughters, who lived to adulthood, co-heirs of the Barony Dacre:[6]
  • 1.Barbara Lennard: born 12 July 1676 at Westminster, London; died 1741 at Paris. Married Charles Skelton, Esq., Lieutenant-General in the French service, and Grand Croix de St. Louis. Died without issue.
  • 2.Charles Lennard: born 25 May 1682 at Windsor Castle; died 13 March 1684. Lord Dacre.
  • 3.Henry Lennard: born about 1683 at Herstmonceaux, Sussex; died in infancy.
  • '4.Anne Lennard: born 17 August 1684 at Sussex; died 26 June 1755 at London. 16th Baroness Dacre in her own right. Married thrice;[7]
  • '(1) First, to Richard Barrett-Lennard, Esq. (died 1716), son of Dacre Barrett-Lennard and his wife Jane, eldest daughter of Arthur Chichester, the second Earl of Donegal. Died a few months after his marriage to the Lady Anne in 1716, leaving his wife with child. Their son was Thomas Barrett-Lennard, 17th Baron Dacre (1717 – 12 January 1786), who died without issue.
  • '(2) Secondly, to Henry Roper, 8th Baron Teynham (died 16 May 1723). Had, among other children, Charles, who m. Gertrude, sister and co-heir of John Trevor, esq. of Glynd, in Sussex, and left at his decease, in 1754, ....
  • '(3) Thirdly, to Roger Moore, Esq., fifth son of Henry, Earl of Drogheda, in Ireland, by whom she had one son, Henry.
• Her descendants include:
• Alexander Murray, 8th Earl of Dunmore
• Colonel Sir William Robert Campion
• Thomas Coke, 3rd Earl of Leicester
• William Legge, 7th Earl of Dartmouth
• Gerald Legge, 9th Earl of Dartmouth
• Lady Elizabeth Basset
• Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield
• Nigel Forbes, 22nd Lord Forbes
• Dermot Chichester, 7th Marquess of Donegall
• Lavinia Fitzalan-Howard, Duchess of Norfolk
• Richard Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 4th Baron Acton
• Reginald Manningham-Buller, 1st Viscount Dilhorne
• Windham Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl
• Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury
• Max Wyndham, 2nd Baron Egremont
• Sir Hugh Barrett-Lennard, 6th Baronet
• Anne Lennard, Countess of Sussex should not be confused with her daughter, *Anne Barrett-Lennard, 16th Baroness Dacre.
• The Countess of Sussex died May 16, 1721 or 1722, and was buried at Linsted, County Kent.
• References
• 1.^ June Ferguson's Royalty GED
• 2.^ From Burnet's History of his Own Times, quoted in G. Steinman Steinman's A Memoir of Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland, 1871, page 26.
• 3.^ Cunningham and Goodwin's The Story of Nell Gwyn, 1903, page 196.
• 4.^ "Memoirs of the Court of England"
• 5.^ From John Heneage Jesse's Memoirs of the Court of England During the Reign of the Stuarts, 1855, page 170.
• 6.^ [1]
• 7.^ From Booker, von Alvensleben, W Owen's The Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1790, pages 372-374.
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