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Lady Augusta Elizabeth Frederica Stanley (3 April 1822 - 1 March 1876), was daughter of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin and Elizabeth Oswald, Countess of Elgin. She was brought up in Paris after her father died. She was lady in waiting to Queen Victoria. She met and later married Arthur P. Stanley, Dean of Westminster at the home of Mary Elizabeth Mohl in Paris.

She unveiled Joseph Edgar Boehm's statue of John Bunyan in Bedford in 1874.

She is buried in The Royal Burying Grounds, Frogmore. Her husband, who died in 1881 is buried at Westminster Abbey.

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