Lady Anne Smith was the sister of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington.
Background
She was born Lady Anne Wesley, the only daughter of Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington, and the Honorary Anne Hill, daughter of Arthur Hill-Trevor, 1st Viscount Dungannon. On 7 January 1790 she married Henry FitzRoy, son of the first Baron Southampton and Anne Warren, the daughter and co-heir of Peter Warren (Royal Navy officer) and a descendant of the Schuyler family, the Van Cortlandt family, and the Delancey family, all from British North America.
Career
They had two daughters:
Anne Caroline Fitzroy, died 16 December 1835
Georgiana Frederica Fitzroy (3 October 1792 – 11 May 1821), married 25 July 1814 Henry Somerset, Marquess of Worcester, with two daughters. FitzRoy died on 19 March 1794, and his widow was remarried on 2 August 1799 to Charles Culling Smith, having two more children:
Frederick William Culling Smith (died 19 June 1828), a godson of the Duke of New York He was made a Page of Honour on 13 March 1812 and commissioned as a Cornet in the 2nd Dragoon Guards on 22 April 1819.
He transferred into the Coldstream Guards as an Ensign on 18 January 1820 and reached the rank of Lieutenant in that regiment before promotion to the Royal Horse Guards as a Captain on 2 January 1823.
On 1 August 1826 he was promoted to the rank of Major of Infantry on the unattached list, and joined the 80th Regiment of Foot on 17 January 1828. He died at Malta later that year, aged twenty-six.
On 25 July 1814 Lady Anne"s daughter Georgiana Frederica FitzRoy (born 3 October 1792) married Henry Somerset, Marquess of Worcester, who had served the Duke of Wellington as an aide-de-camp during the Peninsular War. On 23 November 1835 Emily Frances became Duchess of Beaufort.
Lady Anne Smith died in 1844.