HERTFORD

Maria Seymour-Conway , Marchione of ( dau. of the Marchese Fagniani an Italian ). b. 1771; known as Mie Mie; lived with George Selwyn as his adopted dau. at Matson hall, Gloucester 1779–91 when he died leaving her £30,000; a public singer. ( m. 18 May 1798 Francis, Earl of Yarmouth who in 1822 became 3 Marquis of Hertford 1777–1842); travelled on the continent as the acknowledged mistre of Marshal And oche Junot, duc d’Abrantes 1802–4; the 4th Duke of Queens berry (’Old Q’) bequeathed to her by will in 1810 a sum of £100,000. d. 3 Rue Taitbout, Paris, March 1856 aged 85. P. Fitzgerald’s Kings and Queens of an hour, ii , 355–70 (1883); The Croker Papers, By L. J. Jennings, i , 235–6 (1884).