Anne Caroline Salisbury’s personal life
Anne Caroline Salisbury was born on 15 December 1805. She was the wife of Edwyn Burnaby. They had 5 children: Edwyn Sherard Burnaby, Caroline Louisa Burnaby, Cecilia Florence Burnaby, Gertrude Laura Burnaby, and Ida Charlotte Burnaby. She is the direct maternal great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother. We do not have any information about her early life and education. She loved to live a private life. Anne Caroline Salisbury is the daughter of Thomas Salisbury. Anne’s mother was Frances Webb. She married Edwyn Burnaby on 29 August 1829. She died on 3 May 1881. Here we will discuss all about her family.
Anne Caroline Salisbury’s husband, Edwyn Burnaby
Edwyn Burnaby was born on 29 September 1798. He was an English landowner and courtier. Edwyn Burnaby was a maternal great-grandfather of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and therefore a direct ancestor of Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles III. Edwyn was the eldest son of Edwyn Andrew Burnaby.
He was baptized on 30 September 1798 at Rotherby, Leicestershire, and was probably born the day before as various editions of Burke’s Landed Gentry and other published sources give his date of birth as 29 September 1799 His age is given as 19 on matriculation at Worcester College, Oxford on 20 October 1817.
Edwyn Burnaby attended Christ Church, Oxford. He served as a captain in the Prince of Wales’s Dragoon Guard. Edwyn Burnaby was also a Justice of the Peace, Deputy Lieutenant, and High Sheriff of Leicestershire in 1864. He succeeded his father in the Court post of Gentleman of the Privy chamber.
Anne Caroline Salisbury’s children
Edwyn Sherard Burnaby was born on 22 May 1830. He was a major general and Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicestershire North from 1880 until his death. He served in the Crimean War. Burnaby was educated at Eton College and in 1848 entered the Grenadier Guards, serving at Inkerman and in the Siege of Sebastopol.
He was the brigadier-general of the British, Italian Legion from 1855 to 1857. Burnaby was appointed Honorary Colonel of the 1st Leicestershire Rifle Volunteer Corps in 1878. He inherited Baggrave Hall, Leicestershire on the death of his father in 1867 In 1880 he was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for North Leicestershire together with Lord John Manners.
He married Louisa Julia Mary Dixie on 29 August 1864 at St George’s, Hanover Square. Caroline Louisa Cavendish-Bentinck was born on 23 November 1832. Louisa Burnaby married the Rev. Charles Cavendish Bentinck, as his second wife, on 13 December 1859. Rev Cavendish-Bentinck was the elder son of Lieutenant Colonel Lord Charles Bentinck and Anne Wellesley, formerly Lady Abdy.
His paternal grandparents were William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of Great Britain, and Dorothy Cavendish, a daughter of William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire. Together, Louisa and Charles were the parents of three children. After her first husband died in 1865, she married Henry Warren Scott on 30 September 1870.
