Diana Mabbot

Diana, niece of the Earl of Clareson and first cousin of her Royal Highness, Duchess of York, mother of Queens Mary and Anne (Mabbot) Tuite

from page 524 of The United Service Magazine

MEMOIRS OF GENERAL AND FLAG OFFICERS RECENTLY DECEASED. Vice-admiral Sir Thomas Candler, of the Imperial Russian Navy, Knight of the several Orders of St. Anne, St. George, and St. Volidemar.

This distinguished officer was born at Birr, in 1765, where his father, then a Captain in the 10th Regiment of foot, was quartered. He was paternally descended from an ancient Irish family, being grandson of the venerable Henry Candler, Archdeacon of Ossory, and great-grandson of Thomas Candler, Esq., of Callan Castle, in the County of Kilkenny, and of Jane his wife, daughter of Sir Henry Tuite,* of Sonagh, Baronet, by Diana Mabbot, niece of Edward Hyde,the celebrated Earl of Clarendon; and on the maternal side from the eminent and ancient Yorkshire family of Vavasour,t now extinct in the male line, his mother being the only daughter of William Vavasour, Esq., of Weston Hall in that county, by Anne, daughter of John Chaplin, Esq., of Tathwel), in the county of Lincoln. ....

• *Through the ancient and illustrious families of Tuite, Aylmtr. Nugent, Lords Detain; Fiti-Gerald, Earls of Kildare; Grey, Marquises of Dorset; Bonville, Lords Bonville and Harrington; Neville and Montacute, Kails of Salisbury; Holland, Earls of Kent; Vice-Admiral Candler was lineally descended from the Princess Joan, commonly called " The Fair Maid of Kent/' daughter of Edmund Plantagenet, Earl of Kent (by Margaret, daughter and heiress of Lord Wake), ton of Edward I. King of England, by his second consort, Margaret, daughter of Philip III. King of France.
• f The Vavasours were summoned to Parliament as Barons so early as the reign of Edward I., but the second Lord de Vavasour leaving no male issue, the ancient Barony is supposed still to exist in the descendants of his daughter, while the great estates passed to the heir male.
• Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Nov 25 2016, 23:58:12 UTC
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