Jane Spencer, Baroness Churchill, VA

Royal Order of Victoria and Albert

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 (1 June 1826–24 December 1900), born Lady Jane Conyngham, daughter of the Earl of Mount Charles

Francis Conyngham, 2nd Marquess Conyngham

General Francis Nathaniel Conyngham, 2nd Marquess Conyngham KP, GCH, PC , styled Lord Francis Conyngham between 1816 and 1824 and Earl of Mount Charles between 1824 and 1832, was a British soldier, courtier and politician.-Background and education:Born in Dublin, Conyngham was the second son of...

 (later 2nd Marquess Conyngham), married, on 19 May 1849, the Francis Spencer, 2nd Baron Churchill, at Bifrons House, Kent

Kent

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From 1854 to her death, Lady Churchill was a Lady of the Bedchamber

Lady of the Bedchamber

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 to Queen Victoria

Victoria of the United Kingdom

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. She died on Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve

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 1900 (a month before Queen Victoria), aged 74 at Osborne House

Osborne House

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 on the Isle of Wight

Isle of Wight

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 and was buried on 29 December 1900 at Finstock

Finstock

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, Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire

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