Lady Agnes Georgiana Elizabeth Hay (12 May 1829 – 18 December 1869) was an Irish

Ireland

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-Scottish

Scotland

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 aristocrat.

Agnes was born at Dublin, Ireland

Ireland

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. She was the third child of William Hay, 18th Earl of Erroll

William Hay, 18th Earl of Erroll

William George Hay, 18th Earl of Erroll KT, GCH, PC , styled Lord Hay between 1815 and 1819, was a Scottish peer and politician.-Background and education:...

 and Elizabeth FitzClarence

Elizabeth Hay, Countess of Erroll

Elizabeth Hay, Countess of Erroll was the illegitimate daughter of King William IV of the United Kingdom and Dorothea Jordan. She married William Hay, 18th Earl of Erroll, and became Countess of Erroll on 4 December 1820 at age 19. Due to Hay's parentage, William Hay became Lord Steward of the...

, one of the illegitimate children of King William IV

William IV of the United Kingdom

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 and his mistress

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 Dorothea Jordan.

Agnes died at the age of 40. Her only son Alexander

Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife

Alexander William George Duff, 1st Duke of Fife KG, KT, GCVO, PC, VD , styled Viscount Macduff between 1857 and 1879 and known as The Earl Fife between 1879 and 1889, was a British Peer who married Princess Louise of Wales, the third child and eldest daughter of King Edward VII and Alexandra of...

, married Princess Louise of Wales

Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife

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, the eldest daughter of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales

Edward VII of the United Kingdom

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 (later King Edward VII) and Alexandra of Denmark

Alexandra of Denmark

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 (later Queen Alexandra) in 1889 and was created Duke of Fife

Duke of Fife

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 by Queen Victoria

Victoria of the United Kingdom

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. Through her fourth daughter, also named Agnes, she is an ancestor of British prime minister David Cameron

David Cameron

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.

Marriage and family

She married James Duff, 5th Earl Fife

James Duff, 5th Earl Fife

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, son of General Hon. Sir Alexander Duff

Alexander Duff (British Army officer)

General Sir Alexander Duff GCH was a British Army officer of the Napoleonic era.Duff was a younger son of James Duff, 4th Earl Fife...

 and Anne Stein, on 16 March 1846 at British Embassy, Paris

Paris

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, France

France

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.

They had six children

• Lady Ida Louisa Alice Duff (???? – 29 May 1918)
• Lady Anne Elizabeth Clementina Duff (16 August 1847 – 31 December 1925), married John Townshend, 5th Marquess Townshend
  John Townshend, 5th Marquess Townshend
  John Villiers Stuart Townshend, 5th Marquess Townshend , known as Viscount Raynham from 1855 to 1863, was a British peer and Liberal Member of Parliament....
  
   and had issue.
• Alexander William George Duff, 1st Duke of Fife
  Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife
  Alexander William George Duff, 1st Duke of Fife KG, KT, GCVO, PC, VD , styled Viscount Macduff between 1857 and 1879 and known as The Earl Fife between 1879 and 1889, was a British Peer who married Princess Louise of Wales, the third child and eldest daughter of King Edward VII and Alexandra of...
  
   (10 November 1849 – 29 January 1912)
• Lady Alexina Duff (20 March 1851 – 30 Apr 1882)
• Lady Agnes Cecil Emmeline Duff (18 May 1852 – 11 January 1925), married Sir Alfred Cooper (1838 – 3 March 1908)
• Lady Mary Hamilton Duff (20 February 1854 – 20 March 1854)

Ancestry

Titles and styles

• Lady Agnes Georgiana Elizabeth Hay (1829–1846)
• The Countess Fife (1846–1869)