Lady Christian Dyke Acland

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dyke_Acland

In 1770 he [Col. John Dyke Acland] married Lady Christian Henrietta Caroline Fox-Strangways (d.1815), (known as Harriet) a daughter of Stephen Fox-Strangways, 1st Earl of Ilchester and a second cousin of the leading Whig statesman Charles James Fox, a political opponent of her husband. She accompanied her husband on his military service in Canada, and displayed exceptionally courageous behaviour, for which she later became celebrated. Not only did she insist on following her husband as the campaigning progressed, but insisted on crossing over the Hudson River into enemy territory in order to nurse her prisoner-of-war husband for nine weeks. An oil painting, now at Killerton, was made illustrating her exploit of crossing the St Lawrence, and was exhibited at the Royal Academy in London, and was made into a widely published engraving.[11]

By his wife Acland had the following progeny:

• Sir John Dyke Acland, 8th Baronet (1778–1785), who on 24 February 1785 at the age of 7 inherited the baronetcy on the death of his grandfather the 7th Baronet.[12] He died a few weeks later aged 7, when the baronetcy passed to his uncle Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 9th Baronet.
• Elizabeth "Kitty" Acland (1772-1813) who in 1796 married Henry George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon.[7] On her marriage she received as part of her marriage settlement the Acland estates of Pixton and Tetton in Somerset,[13] which thus passed into the Herbert family.
  • Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Aug 19 2016, 6:24:24 UTC