Anne FitzPatrick, Countess of Upper Ossory (néeLiddell, formerly Anne FitzRoy, Duchess of Grafton; c. 1737–1804) was an English noblewoman and the first wife of Augustus Henry FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton. Grafton divorced her while serving as prime minister. She was a noted correspondent of Horace Walpole.
General Lord Charles FitzRoy (14 July 1764 – 20 December 1829),[3] who married, firstly, Frances Mundy on 20 June 1795, and had one son; he married, secondly, Lady Frances Stewart on 10 March 1799 and had three children. His sons Sir Charles FitzRoy (1796–1858), Governor of New South Wales, and Vice-AdmiralRobert FitzRoy, a hydrographer, were notable for their achievements.
In 1761 she sent a silhouette that Jean Huber had created of her and her daughter to Horace Walpole. This letter was to be the start of a correspondence of 455 letters between herself and Walpole.[1]
After the Duchess had become pregnant by her lover, John FitzPatrick, 2nd Earl of Upper Ossory, she and the Duke were divorced by Act of Parliament, passed 23 March 1769.[4] Three months later, on 24 June 1769, the Duke married Elizabeth Wrottesley (1 November 1745 – 25 May 1822), daughter of the Sir Richard Wrottesley, 7th Baronet, the Dean of Worcester.[5] Anne married FitzPatrick that same year and they had two daughters:
^The Register of Marriages solemnized in the Parish Church of St James within the Liberty of Westminster & County of Middlesex. 1754-1765. No. 406. 29 January 1756.