Lady Dorothy Nevill
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Lady Dorothy Fanny Nevill was an English writer, hostess, horticulturist, and plant collector from the Walpole and Nevill families. She was a founding member of the Conservative Primrose League, colle
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At her home on Charles Street, London
Lady Dorothy in 1852
George Smythe, 7th Viscount Strangford, styled The Honourable George Smythe until 1855, was a British Conservative politician, best known for his association with Benjamin Disraeli and the Young Engla
Lady Dorothy Nevill
…of Russia. Nevill was tutored by a governess in French, Greek, Italian and Latin. In 1847, Nevill was embroiled in a scandal when she was linked with George Smythe, MP, heir to a peerage. Smythe refused to marry her and this destroyed her reputation. Later in 1847, Nevill married a cousin twenty years her senior. Her…
7th Viscount Strangford
Smythe's grave at Kensal Green Cemetery, London, pictured in 2014