Both the 16th Earl and the Countess of Oxford had established court connections: John accompanying Princess Elizabeth from house arrest at Hatfield to the throne, and Margery being appointed a Maid of Honor in 1559.

* July 28 – Margot Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith ( b. 1864 )

Born the son of Thomas Butler, 6th Earl of Ossory and his wife Emilia Butler, Countess of Ossory, and grandson of James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, Butler was born in Dublin and was educated in France and afterwards at Christ Church, Oxford.

Left to right ; Christoper Arkell & Lord Nicholas Hervey ( standing ) Gregory Lauder-Frost ( speaking to Arkell ), Countess Georgina Tolstoy, Count Nikolai Tolstoy ( seated under picture ), unknown man, Merlin Hanbury-Tracy, 7th Baron Sudeley | Lord Sudeley and John P Bullen Stean ( with glasses ) at a dinner on 12 March 1990, at London's United Oxford & Cambridge Club

The collection of portraits by Van Dyck is exceptional, particularly Sir Endymion Porter and Van Dyck, and Martin Ryckaert among the male portraits and Diana Cecil, Countess of Oxford and Maria Ruthwen among the female ones.

Margot Asquith ( née Tennant ), second wife of the first Earl, a socialite, author and wit, became the Countess of Oxford and Asquith upon her husband's becoming the first Earl.

Image: Margot Asquith. jpg | Margot Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith, 1909

Margot Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith, painting by Philip de László.

Margot Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith ( 2 February 1864 – 28 July 1945 ), born Emma Alice Margaret Tennant, was an Anglo-Scottish socialite, author and wit.

Her great grandfather was the Scottish chemist and industrialist, Charles Tennant and her half-sister was Margot Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith, the English socialite and wife of Prime Minister Herbert Asquith.

* Frances Howard, Countess of Surrey ( 1516 – 1577 ), née de Vere, daughter of the Earl of Oxford and wife of the executed Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

The practice was adapted to the modern university system beginning in England in 1502, when Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and grandmother to the future king Henry VIII, created the first endowed chairs in divinity at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

* Introduction to The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Vols 1 & 2, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1998

This was first recorded in the fourteenth century as ' Countessesbrugge ', and may be called after Matilda, Countess of Oxford, who then held the manor of Kensington.

The actual author was proposed to be Christopher Marlowe, Francis Bacon, the Earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere or Mary Sidney ( Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke ).

It was during this time he met the Countess Vera Rossakoff, a glamorous jewel thief.

Although letting the Countess escape is morally questionable, that impulse to take the law into his own hands was far from unique.

A more detailed account of how the Ashes were given to Ivo Bligh was outlined by his wife, the Countess of Darnley, in 1930 during a speech at a cricket luncheon.

In 1843, the description was translated into English and extensively annotated by Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace, who had become interested in the engine ten years earlier.

A notorious murder scandal, the Overbury case, threw up two imperfect anagrams that were aided by typically loose spelling and were recorded by Simonds D ' Ewes: ' Francis Howard ' ( for Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset, her maiden name spelled in a variant ) became Car findes a whore, with the letters E hardly counted, and the victim Thomas Overbury, as ' Thomas Overburie ', was written as O!

The first known instance of Newton's lines joined to music was in A Companion to the Countess of Huntingdon's Hymns ( London, 1808 ), where it is set to the tune " Hephzibah " by English composer John Jenkins Husband.

Afonso's first wife was Matilda II, Countess of Boulogne, daughter of Renaud, Count of Dammartin, and Ida, Countess of Boulogne.

Achduart was part of the Estate of Coigach, Lochbroom, belonging to the Countess of Cromartie.

Her mother was born Countess Maria-Luisa Yvonne Radha de Wendt de Kerlor, better known as Gogo Schiaparelli, a socialite of Italian, Swiss, French, and Egyptian ancestry.

Henry made his way to the Canossa where the Pope was staying in the castle of Countess Matilda.

Vordenburg is an authority on vampires and has discovered that his ancestor was romantically involved with the Countess Karnstein, before she died and became one of the undead.

Among these was Countess Margaret of Flanders who established the monastery of Lille, while Val-Duchesse at Oudergern near Brussels was built with the wealth of Adelaide of Burgundy, Duchess of Brabant ( 1262 ).

Lord and Lady Mountbatten had two daughters: Patricia Mountbatten, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma ( born on 14 February 1924 ), sometime lady-in-waiting to the Queen, and Lady Pamela Carmen Louise ( Hicks ) ( born on 19 April 1929 ), who accompanied them to India in 1947-48 and was also sometime lady-in-waiting to the Queen.

Alexander was born in London, the third son of the Earl and Countess of Caledon, the latter being a daughter of the Earl of Norbury.

John's first wife, Isabel, Countess of Gloucester, was released from imprisonment in 1214 ; she remarried twice, and died in 1217.

The Countess Lucia von Bardas was elected as Prime Minister.

1885: An association for medical aid by the women t the women of India was established by the Countess of Dufferin

The Calvinist Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion was also strongly associated with the Methodist revival.

Henry VIII's cousin once removed, Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury, stood sponsor for Mary's confirmation, which was held immediately after the baptism.

In 1520, the Countess of Salisbury was appointed as Mary's governess.

Mary's own household was dissolved ; her servants ( including the Countess of Salisbury ) were dismissed from her service, and in December 1533 she was sent to join the household of the infant Elizabeth at Hatfield, Hertfordshire.

William Adelin had got into a small boat and could have escaped but turned back to try to rescue his half-sister, Matilda FitzRoy, Countess of Perche, when he heard her cries for help.

She was an older paternal half-sister to Marguerite of France, Alys, Countess of the Vexin, Philip II of France and Agnes of France.

Howe was born in London, the second son of Emanuel Scrope Howe, 2nd Viscount Howe, who died as governor of Barbados in March 1735, and of Charlotte, a daughter of Baroness von Kielmansegg, afterwards Countess of Darlington, the half-sister of King George I which does much to explain his early rise in the navy.

At the last minute, William dashed back to rescue his illegitimate half-sister, the Countess of Perche ; when they and several others threw themselves into the small dinghy, it, " overcharged by the multitude that leapt into her, capsized and sank and buried all indiscriminately in the deep.

The Scottish titles were inherited by the late Earl's half-sister, the seventh Countess.

The marriage of Urraca and Alfonso I almost immediately sparked rebellions in Galicia and scheming by her illegitimate half-sister Theresa and brother-in-law Henry, the Countess and Count of Portugal.

Eleanor was an older half-sister of Henry de Beauchamp, 1st Duke of Warwick and Anne Neville, Countess of Warwick.

Eleanor was an older half-sister of Henry de Beauchamp, 1st Duke of Warwick and Anne Neville, Countess of Warwick.

Countess Judith was a niece of King William I of England – she was the daughter of his half-sister Adelaide of Normandy and her husband Lambert II, Count of Lens.

She was a half-sister of Constance, Queen of Sicily, Joanna, Countess of Ampurias and Isabella, Countess of Urgell.

She was a younger half-sister of Marie de Champagne, Alix of France, Marguerite of France and Alys, Countess of the Vexin.

By his father's first wife, he has an elder half-sister Lady Patricia Douglas, whose daughter Countess Emma de Bendern was the first wife of gossip columnist Nigel Dempster.

The de Leigh family claimed descent from Adeliza, Countess of Aumale, the half-sister of William the Conqueror, and Charlemagne's eldest son Charles, who is usually considered childless.

On 10 January 1526, Chabot married Françoise de Longwy, Dame de Pagny and de Mirebeau ( c. 1510-after 14 April 1561 ), the eldest daughter of Jean IV de Longwy, Seigneur de Givry, Baron of Pagny and of Mirebeau ( died 1520 ), and Jeanne of Angoulême, Countess of Bar-sur-Seine, the illegitimate half-sister of King Francis.

Margaret was a younger half-sister to Marie of France, Countess of Champagne, and Alix of France.