Thomas Taylour, 2nd Marquess of Headfort
Thomas Taylour, 2nd Marquess of Headfort
from 1812 to 1830.Headfort was the son of
Lord Headfort first married Olivia, daughter of John Andrew Stevenson, in 1822. At the time of her early death, of cholera, on 21 July 1834, she left her husband with nine children. On 6 May 1853, he married Lady Frances Macnaghten, daughter of John Livingstone Martyn and widow of (i) Lieutenant-Colonel James McClintock of the Bombay Army and (ii) Sir William Hay Macnaghten, British Envoy to Afghanistan who was murdered in Kabul in 1841. Headfort died in December 1870, aged 83, and was succeeded in the marquessate by his son from his first marriage, Thomas. Another of his children by his first marriage was the author Virginia Sandars. The second Marchioness of Headfort died in 1878.
References
- Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [better source needed]
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
- www.thepeerage.com