Name Lady Hudson | Died October 1994 | |
Role John Eliot, 6th Earl of St Germans' daughter Children David Seyfried Herbert, 19th Baron Herbert Parents Lady Blanche Linnie Somerset, John Eliot, 6th Earl of St Germans Grandparents Henry Somerset, 9th Duke of Beaufort Great-grandparents Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort | ||
Lady Cathleen Blanche Lily Eliot, later Seyfried, later still Hudson (29 July 1921–October 1994) was the younger daughter of John Granville Cornwallis Eliot, 6th Earl of St Germans and Lady Blanche Linnie Somerset, daughter of the 9th Duke of Beaufort. She was the mother of the present Baron Herbert.
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Her father died from pneumonia on 22 March 1922, whilst recuperating in South Africa following a riding accident, leaving issue two daughters. His earldom and associated titles thus passed to his first cousin. Her mother, the widowed Countess, remarried George Francis Valentine Scott Douglas and had a son James Louis Fitzroy Scott Douglas (1930-1969), later Sir James Scott Douglas, Bt by her second husband; this half-brother died unmarried.
Marriages
Lady Cathleen married twice:
- Sarah Diana Seyfried, born 6 April 1949
- David John Seyfried-Herbert, 19th Baron Herbert, born 3 March 1952 (see Barony of Herbert).
- Louise Deborah Hudson, born 2 December 1958,
- Michael Guy Havelock Hudson, born 14 March 1962
Claim and succession to the Barony Herbert
Her uncle the Henry Somerset, 10th Duke of Beaufort died childless in 1984, and this made her the junior co-heiress, with the co-heiresses of her elder sister as senior co-heiresses, to the baronies Herbert and Botetourt. At her own death in 1994, this junior half-share in both baronies was inherited by her elder son David. The barony Herbert was eventually called out of abeyance in his favour in 2002; that of Botetourt still remains in abeyance.