HARRIET SYDNEY MONTAGU (NÉE DOBBS), DUCHESS OF MANCHESTER(1834-1907) WAS BORN ON THIS DAY 4TH DECEMBER 1834
Former wife of 6th Duke of Manchester, and later wife of Sir Stevenson Arthur Blackwood; daughter of Conway Richard Dobbs
Her second husband Sir Stevenson Arthur Blackwood was Secretary to the Post Office from 1880 to 1893 and nicknamed ‘Beauty’ because of his good looks
They lived at Wood Lodge overlooking Tooting Bec Common.
(Portrait by William Henry Mote, after Elish Lamont
stipple engraving, 1855 or after NPG D10934
© National Portrait Gallery, London)
Former wife of 6th Duke of Manchester, and later wife of Sir Stevenson Arthur Blackwood; daughter of Conway Richard Dobbs
Her second husband Sir Stevenson Arthur Blackwood was Secretary to the Post Office from 1880 to 1893 and nicknamed ‘Beauty’ because of his good looks
They lived at Wood Lodge overlooking Tooting Bec Common.
(Portrait by William Henry Mote, after Elish Lamont
stipple engraving, 1855 or after NPG D10934
© National Portrait Gallery, London)
