Margaret Eleanor Banks

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Margaret Eleanor Banks

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Birthplace: Ravesby Abbey, Lincolnshire
Death: June 19, 1793 (69-70)
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Joseph Banks and Ann Banks
Wife of Hon. Henry Grenville
Mother of Louisa Grenville
Sister of Joseph Banks; Lettice Mary Banks; William Hodgkinson Banks; Elizabeth Banks and Robert Hodgkinson Banks
Half sister of Collingwood Banks and George Banks

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About Margaret Eleanor Banks

Eleanora Margaret, born 1723 ; " she is ", wrote Sir Joseph, " spoken of by her contemporaries as having been one of the handsomest women of the age she lived in, and this her portrait at lievesby justifies ". She married the Hon. Henry Grenville, brother of Earl Temple, in 1757, and was the mother of Louisa Countess Stanhope. She accompanied her husband to Constantinople when he was appointed Ambassador to the Porte.

She died in 1793 and was buried at Chevening, Kent.

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Margaret Eleanor Banks's Timeline

1723
1723
Ravesby Abbey, Lincolnshire
1758
August 10, 1758
Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire, England (United Kingdom)
1793
June 19, 1793
Age 70