Background
She was the daughter of Francis Willoughby of Wollaton, Nottinghamshire, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and a writer on natural history, and his wife Emma, the daughter of Sir Henry Barnard of Bridgnorth, Shropshire and London.
She was the daughter of Francis Willoughby of Wollaton, Nottinghamshire, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and a writer on natural history, and his wife Emma, the daughter of Sir Henry Barnard of Bridgnorth, Shropshire and London.
Brydges" social standing rose the following year when he was made Earl of Carnarvon and inherited a barony and baronetcy when his father, the 8th Baron Chandos of Sudeley, died. In 1719 he became Duke of Chandos, and Cassandra the Duchess. Cassandra died childless aged 65, and was buried at Street Lawrence, Whitchurch near the ducal seat Cannons.