Mary Theresa Burdett (Coventry) O'Grady (1845 - 1910)

Born 1845 in England

Ancestors

Wife of George Seaham Tucker de Windt — married 12 Feb 1873 in Earls Croome, Malvern Hills, Worcestershire, England

Wife of John Henry Empson — married 22 Jul 1879 in Yorkshire, England

Wife of Frederick Standish O'Grady — married 29 Nov 1881 in All Souls Church, Marylebone, London, England

Died 12 Jan 1910 at about age 65 in England

Biography

She was the 4th daughter of Mary Laing and the Hon Lt-Col William James Coventry, of the 7th Hussars, the 2nd son of George William Coventry, 7th Earl of Coventry.

Marriages and family

On 12 February 1873 she married 1ly George Seaham Tucker de Windt, the eldest son of Capt Clayton de Windt. He died on 26 October 1876 (dsp) without children.

On 22 July 1879 she married 2ly widower John Henry Empson, without children. He shot himself on 29 August 1881.

In late 1881 she married 3ly as his 1st wife, the Hon Frederick Standish O'Grady, later 6th Viscount Guillamore (1918), the 6th son of Standish O'Grady, 2nd Viscount Guillamore (1794-1848) and Gertrude Jane Paget (died 1871), without children.

Death and burial

She died on 12 January 1910. Her widower remarried in 1911, with issue one daughter.

Sources

William Empson, Volume I: Among the Mandarins, by John Haffenden (2009).[1]

A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, Sir Bernard Burke (1906).