Background
Charlotte was the daughter of James Fitzgerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, and his wife Lady Emily, daughter of Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, and the second of the famous Lennox sisters.
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Charlotte was the daughter of James Fitzgerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, and his wife Lady Emily, daughter of Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, and the second of the famous Lennox sisters.
Through her mother she was a descendant of King Charles World War II Hence, in 1821 Charlotte was raised to the peerage as Baroness Rayleigh, of Terling Place in the County of Essex. Joseph Strutt died in 1845.
In Toulouse on 23 February 1789 Charlotte married Joseph Strutt, later Member of Parliament for Maldon and the member of an Essex family that had made their fortune from its milling business.