She was the eleventh child (among thirteen) of Pascoe Grenfell
and his second wife Georgiana St Leger
, and had two much older half-brothers.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Frances Eliza Kingsley
Jenkins, Nicholas et al. Kindred Britain. 2013, http://kindred.stanford.edu/#.
under Frances Grenfell
Family and Intimate relationships
Fanny Kingsley
FK
's mother was born Georgiana St Leger
, the youngest daughter of St Leger St Leger, first Viscount Doneraile
. The St Leger family was well-established and had strong ties to Ireland. Georgiana...