Frances Whitmore

Frances Whitmore (1666–1695) was a British courtier. Frances was one of the Hampton Court Beauties painted by Sir Godfrey Kneller for Queen Mary II. She was styled Dame Frances Myddelton.

Godfrey Kneller's painting of Frances Whitmore in the Hampton Court Beauties series

Family

Her father was Sir Thomas Whitmore, (son of Sir Thomas Whitmore, 1st Baronet), and her mother was Hon. Frances Brooke (1640–1690).

She married Sir Richard Myddelton, 3rd Baronet (1655–1716) in c.1686. They had three children:

  • Frances Myddelton (d.1693),
  • Mary Myddelton (1688–1747),
  • Sir William Myddelton, 4th Baronet (1694–1718).[1]

Other

As one of the Hampton Court Beauties, Frances Myddelton (Nee Whitmore) was known as Lady Myddelton, coincidentally, her husband's aunt is the Mrs Myddelton of the Windsor Beauties and her own mother is Lady Whitmore of the Windsor Beauties.

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gollark: One possible way to fix this would be to have a central "broker" task which receives all state-updating commands ever and maintains stateful state, but this would be annoying too unless I can give everything else read access to it, and actually getting responses back would probably be irritating.
gollark: i.e. two people try and register with the same nick at exactly the same time, and then it has two people with the same nick because each time it checks it hasn't been written yet, and then everything breaks horribly.
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gollark: So I thought "well, I'll just make it check if the nick is in use when it gets the NICK command".

References

  • Godfrey Kneller. "Frances Whitmore, Lady Middleton (c. 1666-94)". Royal Collection Trust. Inventory no. 404727.


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