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then forty, first saw her standing at a window of the former[[addition]] lly [[/addition]] Kent House and fell in love with her at first sight. They had two sons and three d[[deletion]] [[unclear]] [[/deletion]] [[addition]] au [[/addition]]ghters. Lord Augustus died in 1854, and his widow was so badly off that in order to educate her children she spent some [[deletion]] time [[/deletion]] [[addition]] years [[/addition]] in Dresden; her elder son died there. Lord Augustus had been Chaplain to Queen Adelaide and subsequently to Queen Victoria; at the time of King William's death, when Queen Victoria begged Queen Adelaide to choose anything that she would care to take ^ [[addition]] away [[/addition]] from Windsor ^ [[addition]] Castle [[/addition]] the two things that Queen Adelaide chose were the silver cup which was [[addition]] last [[/addition]] thing that the King had drunk from, and the picture of the FitzClarence family: This picture was left by Queen Adelaide to Lord Augustus [[addition]] , [[/addition]] and being entailled it passed to his only surviving son, Mr. Henry FitzClarence, who sold it to his cousin, Mr. John Erskine of Dun. Mr. FitzClarence's only son, Captain Cornwallis FitzClarence, 1st Batt. Royal Fusliers, was killed at the landing in Gallipoli, in June 1815; his only sister married Major Roland Orred M. C. (1) KentHouse then belonged to Lord Morley. Lady Henry Gordan was Lord Morley's illegitimate daughter.
