Besides this, Henry Thynne
, son of Viscount Weymouth
of Longleat House (nephew by marriage of Anne Finch
, and father of the future Lady Hertford
), taught ESR
French and Italian. She read very...
Family and Intimate relationships
Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford
Frances's father, Henry Thynne
, was three times elected to parliament and was a generous patron of the arts. He was the only surviving son of Thomas Thynne, first Viscount Weymouth
, but he never...
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Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford
Frances Thynne, later Hertford, began letter-writing at an early age. She was eleven when her grandfather
was glad to find her in an hopeful way of being a good scribe,
qtd. in
Hughes, Helen Sard. The Gentle Hertford, Her Life and Letters. Macmillan, 1940.