Margaret Rolle, 15th Baroness Clinton

Margaret Rolle, 15th Baroness Clinton
Margaret Rolle, Baroness Clinton, by John Theodore Heins, matching pair with portrait of her first husband, Lord Orford
Born(1709-01-17)17 January 1709
England
Died13 January 1781(1781-01-13) (aged 71)
Pisa, Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1724, divorced)​

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(m. 1751, separated)​
ChildrenGeorge Walpole
RelativesRobert Rolle (grandfather)
Margaret Rolle, Countess of Orford & suo jure Baroness Clinton (1709–1781) by a follower of Herman van der Mijn. The pose is very similar to the portrait of Lady Frances Finch,[1] wife of Viscount Courtenay by Thomas Hudson

Margaret Rolle, 15th Baroness Clinton suo jure (17 January 1709 – 13 January 1781),[2] was a wealthy British aristocrat, known both for eccentricity and her extramarital affairs.

By her first husband Robert, 1st Baron Walpole, later 2nd Earl of Orford (1701–1751) and eldest son of Sir Robert Walpole, she gave birth to a legitimate heir, George Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford, who succeeded her in the title of Baron Clinton.

  1. ^ Frances, Viscountess Courtenay by Thomas Hudson
  2. ^ Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.