Charlotte Sophia Fitzalan-Howard (née Leveson-Gower), Duchess of Norfolk (bapt.

Baptism

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 9 July 1788–7 July 1870) was a daughter of the 1st Duke of Sutherland

George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland

George Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland KG, PC , known as Viscount Trentham from 1758 to 1786, as Earl Gower from 1786 to 1803 and as The Marquess of Stafford from 1803 to 1833, was a British politician, diplomat, landowner and patron of the arts. He is estimated to have been the...

 and his wife, Elizabeth

Elizabeth Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland

Elizabeth Sutherland Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland , also suo jure 19th Countess of Sutherland, was a Scottish peeress, best remembered for her involvement in the Highland Clearances....

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On 27 December 1814, she married the Earl of Arundel and Surrey, the son and heir of the 12th Duke of Norfolk and became the Countess of Arundel and Surrey and upon the death of her husband's father in 1842, she became the Duchess of Norfolk. The couple later had five children:

• Lady Adeliza Matilda Fitzalan-Howard (d. 1904)
• Henry Granville Fitzalan-Howard, Earl of Arundel and Surrey (1815–1860)
• Lord Edward George Fitzalan-Howard
  Edward Fitzalan-Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Glossop
  Edward George Fitzalan-Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Glossop PC , styled Lord Edward Howard between 1842 and 1869, was a British Liberal politician...
  
   (1818–1883)
• Lady Mary Charlotte Howard (1822–1897)
• Lord Bernard Thomas Fitzalan-Howard (1825–1846)

One of the duchess's most accomplished works was a 166-piece collection of songs and piano pieces that she translated into five languages between 1811 and 1823. It includes works from composers such as Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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, Gay

John Gay

John Gay was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera , set to music by Johann Christoph Pepusch...

, Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...

, Arnold

Samuel Arnold (composer)

Samuel Arnold was an English composer and organist.Arnold was born in London , and began writing music for the theatre in about 1764. A few years later he became director of music at the Marylebone Gardens, for which much of his popular music was written...

, Arne

Thomas Augustine Arne

Thomas Augustine Arne was a British composer, best known for the patriotic song Rule, Britannia!. He also wrote a version of God Save the King, which was to become the British national anthem, and the song A-Hunting We Will Go...

 and Handel

George Frideric Handel

George Frideric Handel was a German-British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Handel was born in 1685, in a family indifferent to music...

. The collection is currently held by Yale University

Yale University

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