Background
The only surviving child and heir of Sir Nicholas Shireburn, 1st and last Baronet, of Stonyhurst, she was born into a prominent Catholic Lancashire family.
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Maria Winifreda Francisca Howard
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Career
She brought a large dowry of more than £30,000. She nevertheless managed to convince the Earl of Carlisle to act as surety for his bail in May 1723. lieutenant was valued at £1,380,000.
The childless marriage was, however, unhappy due to the Duchess"s strong Catholic and Jacobite feelings.
She left him when he, as she put it, "truckled to the Usurper". Widowed on 23 December 1732, the Duchess married Peregrine Widdrington in November 1733.
He was the brother of William Widdrington, the 4th and last Baron Widdrington of Blankney, and had taken part in the Jacobite Rising of 1715. She died in 1754, as the last representative of her family.
