Daughter of Sir Charles Sedley (bap. 1639, d. 1701) and his wife, Lady Catherine Savage.
c 1680 - Mistress of King James II, of Great Britain and Ireland.
August 1696 she married one of William III's army officers, Sir David Colyear, second baronet, who was created a Baron in 1699 and Earl of Portmore in the Scottish peerage four years later. Countess of Dorchester.
DNB:
She died at Bath, Somerset, on 26 October 1717, and was buried there. Twelve years later her body was transferred to the new Portmore vault in the church at Weybridge, Surrey, where she had owned a house since the late 1680s.
From the ODNB - https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/25020 - last revised 2004. Born in Great Queen Street, Holborn, baptised at St Giles in the Fields, Holborn, aged eight days old. Great Queen Street seems to be based on the statement in her father's entry "The couple set up house in Great Queen Street."
c 1680 - Mistress of King James II, of Great Britain and Ireland.
August 1696 she married one of William III's army officers, Sir David Colyear, second baronet, who was created a Baron in 1699 and Earl of Portmore in the Scottish peerage four years later. Countess of Dorchester.
DNB:
She died at Bath, Somerset, on 26 October 1717, and was buried there. Twelve years later her body was transferred to the new Portmore vault in the church at Weybridge, Surrey, where she had owned a house since the late 1680s.
From the ODNB - https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/25020 - last revised 2004. Born in Great Queen Street, Holborn, baptised at St Giles in the Fields, Holborn, aged eight days old. Great Queen Street seems to be based on the statement in her father's entry "The couple set up house in Great Queen Street."
Daughter of Sir Charles Sedley (bap. 1639, d. 1701) and his wife, Lady Catherine Savage.
c 1680 - Mistress of King James II, of Great Britain and Ireland.
August 1696 she married one of William III's army officers, Sir David Colyear, second baronet, who was created a Baron in 1699 and Earl of Portmore in the Scottish peerage four years later. Countess of Dorchester.
DNB:
She died at Bath, Somerset, on 26 October 1717, and was buried there. Twelve years later her body was transferred to the new Portmore vault in the church at Weybridge, Surrey, where she had owned a house since the late 1680s.
From the ODNB - https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/25020 - last revised 2004. Born in Great Queen Street, Holborn, baptised at St Giles in the Fields, Holborn, aged eight days old. Great Queen Street seems to be based on the statement in her father's entry "The couple set up house in Great Queen Street."
c 1680 - Mistress of King James II, of Great Britain and Ireland.
August 1696 she married one of William III's army officers, Sir David Colyear, second baronet, who was created a Baron in 1699 and Earl of Portmore in the Scottish peerage four years later. Countess of Dorchester.
DNB:
She died at Bath, Somerset, on 26 October 1717, and was buried there. Twelve years later her body was transferred to the new Portmore vault in the church at Weybridge, Surrey, where she had owned a house since the late 1680s.
From the ODNB - https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/25020 - last revised 2004. Born in Great Queen Street, Holborn, baptised at St Giles in the Fields, Holborn, aged eight days old. Great Queen Street seems to be based on the statement in her father's entry "The couple set up house in Great Queen Street."
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