Royal Bastards by Roger Powell

Author:Roger Powell [Powell, Roger]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Royal Bastards: Illegitimate childern of the British Family
ISBN: 9780752473161
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2012-02-17T05:00:00+00:00

Lady Augusta Kennedy, later Hallyburton, (née FitzClarence) (1803–65)

The fourth daughter of Mrs. Jordan (1761–1816), the well known comic actress, by the Duke of Clarence, later King William IV, was Augusta FitzClarence, who was born on 17 November 1803 at Bushey House. As with her siblings, she was granted by Royal warrant in 1831 the precedence of a younger child of a Marquess and in 1818 all five sisters were granted a pension of £500. She was also granted a differenced version of the Royal Arms charged with a baton sinister azure charged with an anchor between two roses or.

Very little seems to be known about Augusta and there were no references to her in Quen Victoria’s Diaries. Augusta married twice, firstly in 1827 to the Hon. John Kennedy-Erskine, 2nd son of Archibald (Kennedy), KT, FRS, 1st Marquess of Ailsa and 12th Earl of Cassilis. Her husband, who had inherited his maternal grandfather’s estate of Dun in Forfarshire when he added the name and arms of Erskine of Dun, died four years later, leaving a son and a daughter, Wilhelmina (who was to marry in 1855 her first cousin the 2nd Earl of Munster). As chatelaine of the House of Dun in Angus, Augusta became a passionate botanist and néedlewoman and features in Great Houses of Scotland by Hugh Massingberd.

She married secondly on 24 August 1836 a professional sailor with service in the Home, South American and Mediterranean Stations, who saw action with the Toulon fleet in 1814. He was Captain, later Admiral, Lord John Frederick Gordon, who in 1843 changed his name to Hallyburton. He was the 3rd son of the 9th Marquess of Huntly and 5th Earl of Aboyne and he later served as an MP for Forfar in Angus. Three weeks before their marriage, he went on half pay, having paid off the sloop Pandora, and just a week before he was appointed GCH. Nevertheless his half pay did not prevent him being promoted successively Rear Admiral in 1857, Vice Admiral in 1863 and full Admiral in 1868. Augusta died in 1865 without any further children but he survived her for another twelve years thereafter.

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