Freeman-Mitford, Frances, Redesdale (1767 -1817)

Lady Frances Perceval, daughter of John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont, and his second wife Catherine Compton, Baroness Arden, married John Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale in 1803. Her brother was prime minister Spencer Perceval, who was assassinated in 1812. They had one son. Baron Redesdale had taken the additional name of Freeman in 1809 on succeeding to the estates of Thomas Edwards Freeman. Lady Redesdale died in August 1817. Lord Redesdale survived her by thirteen years and died at Batsford Park, near Moreton-in-the-Marsh, Gloucestershire, in January 1830, aged 81.