Robert Stewart (soldier)
Sir Robert Stewart( died c.1670) was a Scottish soldier who twice served as Governor of Londonderry.
Although details of his origins in Scotland are unclear, he accompanied James I to England in 1603 and in 1609 was deputed to escort 800 troublesome followers of the fugitive Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone to Sweden.
It is doubtful whether the task was satisfactorily executed as he was detained in Newcastle later that year, accompanied by three ships of Irishmen.
He was nevertheless given permission to enter the service of Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden.
He remained abroad until c.1617 after which he was given a grants of land in Counties Leitrim, Cavan, and Fermanagh.
He again left for the continent to fight in the service of Sigismund III of Poland and in 1637 was given permission to recruit soldiers in Ireland to fight for the Swedish crown.
In 1638 he was appointed governor of Culmore Castle on Lough Foyle, which commanded the seaward approaches to the city of Londonderry and was elected in February, 1639 to represent the city in the Irish parliament.
After the outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641 he was commissioned by Charles I to raise a regiment in Ireland, with which he managed to relieve Captain Audley Mervyn at Augher.
They were unsuccessful in preventing Sir Phelim O'Neill from capturing Strabane but managed to secure the Barony of Raphoe which helped to guarantee the safety of Londonderry.
Lack of support from England or Dublin meant that Stewart was forced to exhaust his own resources, and in the following spring his men were reduced to great extremities.
Nevertheless he and Sir William Stewart defeated Sir Phelim O'Neill at Glenmaquin, near Raphoe on 16 June 1642.
In 1643 Stewart was briefly made Governor of Londonderry in addition to Culmore.
He continued on the offensive and in a skirmish near Clones overpowered Owen Roe O'Neill.
After the collapse of the Royalist cause in Ireland Stewart returned to Scotland but at the Restoration was given a company of foot and reappointed Governor of Londonderry as a reward for his services.
He was replaced as Governor of Londonderry in 1661 by Colonel John Gorges, but allowed to retain the governorship of Culmore until his death in about 1670.
Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry
Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry (born Charles William Stewart; 1778–1854) was an Irish soldier in the British army, a politician, and a nobleman.
As a soldier he fought in the French Revolutionary Wars, in the suppression of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, and in the Napoleonic wars.
He excelled as a cavalry commander on the Iberian Peninsula under John Moore and Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington).
Having been dismissed by Wellington, his half-brother Lord Castlereagh helped him to launch a diplomatic career.
He was posted to Berlin in 1813, and then as Ambassador to Austria, where his half-brother was the British plenipotentiary at the Congress of Vienna.
He married Lady Catherine Bligh in 1804 and
then Lady Frances Anne Vane, a rich heiress, in 1819, changing his surname to hers, thus being called Charles Vane instead of Charles Stewart from there on.
He succeeded his half-brother as 3rd Marquess of Londonderry in 1822.
He was made a Knight of the Garter in 1853, and died a year later in London on 6 March 1854.
Lord Adolphus Vane-Tempest
Lord Adolphus Frederick Charles William Vane-Tempest (2 July 1825 – 11 June 1864), known until 1854 as Lord Adolphus Vane, was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.
He was the fourth child (and second son) of Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry and his wife Frances Anne Vane, Marchioness of Londonderry.
In December 1852, he was elected at a by-election as Member of Parliament (MP) for the City of Durham, but the election was overturned on petition the next year.
In 1854 he was elected unopposed to the House of Commons as MP for North Durham after the death of his father, filling the seat vacated by his elder brother George Vane-Tempest, Viscount Seaham, who succeeded to the peerage as Earl Vane.
He held the seat until his death in 1864, aged 38.
During the enthusiasm for the Volunteer Movement in 1859–60, although his brothers were connected with the 2nd (Seaham) Durham Artillery Volunteer Corps formed at the family's Seaham Colliery, Lord Adolphus raised and commanded an infantry corps, the Sunderland Rifles.
According to Anne Isba, author and Victorian Studies scholar, Vane was "notoriously unstable" and was "described by Queen Victoria as having 'a natural tendency to madness.'
Vane, who on one occasion violently attacked his wife and infant son, died four years later during a struggle with four keepers."
Edith Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Marchioness of Londonderry
Edith Helen Vane- Tempest- Stewart, Marchioness of Londonderry, DBE(" née" Chaplin; 3 December 1878 – 23 April 1959) was a noted and influential society hostess in the United Kingdom between World War I and World War II, a friend of the first Labour prime minister, Ramsay MacDonald.
She was a noted gardener and a writer and editor of the works of others.
Frances Vane, Marchioness of Londonderry
Frances Anne Vane, Marchioness of Londonderry (17 January 1800 – 20 January 1865) was a wealthy English heiress and noblewoman.
She was the daughter of Sir Henry Vane-Tempest, 2nd Baronet.
She married Charles William Stewart, 1st Baron Stewart, who changed his surname to hers and became Charles William Vane.
She became Marchioness in 1822 when Charles succeeded his half-brother as 3rd Marquess of Londonderry.
Through her daughter Frances Anne, she is the great-grandmother of Winston Churchill.
Susanna Leveson-Gower, Marchioness of Stafford
Susanna Leveson- Gower, Marchioness of Stafford( née Lady Susanna Stewart)( 1742 – 1805), styled Lady Susanna Stewart from 1742 to 1768, Countess Gower until 1786, Marchioness of Stafford until 1803 and Dowager Marchioness of Stafford until her death in 1805, was a British noblewoman, who in 1768 became the wife of Granville Leveson- Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford and a member of the Leveson- Gower family.
Doreen Wells
Doreen Patricia Vane- Tempest- Stewart, Marchioness of Londonderry( née Wells; born 25 June 1937) is a British former ballet dancer.
Nicolette Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Marchioness of Londonderry
Nicolette Elaine Katherine Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Marchioness of Londonderry, formerly Nicolette Harrison, later Nicolette Powell (1941 – 13 August 1993), was the first wife of Alistair Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 9th Marquess of Londonderry, and later the wife of musician Georgie Fame.
Albert Anderson (politician)
Commander Albert Wesley Anderson( 23 July 1907 – 18 June 1986) was the son of Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Newton Anderson and Lydia" Lily" Elizabeth Smith, a businessman, member of Londonderry City Council and Lord Mayor of Londonderry( from 1915 – 1919).
Albert Anderson was born in County Londonderry and educated at Foyle College and at Rydal School( Wales), followed by the University of Nottingham.
He served as a Commander in the Royal Navy during the Second World War.
Member of Londonderry Corporation until 1969.
He was Mayor of Londonderry( and" ex officio" Member of the Senate of Northern Ireland) from 1963 to 1968.
During this period, he was a leading figure in the unsuccessful campaign to site a new university in Derry.
He was elected Ulster Unionist Party Member of Parliament for the City of Londonderry from the by-election of 16 May 1968 until the prorogation of the Stormont Parliament in 1972.
Anderson was Senior Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs from 26 October 1971 until 1972.
Margaret, Marchioness of Namur
Margaret, Marchioness of Namur( c. 1194 – 17 July 1270) was ruling Marchioness of Namur in 1229- 1237.
She was the daughter of Peter II of Courtenay and Yolanda of Flanders.

Question: Where did Frances Vane, Marchioness Of Londonderry's husband die?
Answer: London