Lady Sophia Topley

The Lady Sophia Louise Sydney Topley (née Cavendish; born 18 March 1957) is the third child and second daughter of the 11th Duke of Devonshire and his wife, Deborah Mitford. She is the younger sister of the (present) 12th Duke.

Marriages

Lady Sophia has been married three times:

1. Anthony Murphy - 20 October 1979, and they divorced childless in 1987.
2. The Honourable Alastair Morrison - 19 July 1988, who in 2003 succeeded as 3rd Baron Margadale. They had two children, Declan James (born 11 July 1993) and Nancy Lorna (born 22 January 1995, named after Lady Sophia's aunt the novelist Nancy Mitford). The marriage ended in divorce.
3. William Topley - 25 November 1999, an artist

Books

As Lady Sophia Murphy, she is the author of The Duchess of Devonshire's Ball (London: Sedgwick & Jackson, 1984), a photo-album of a costume ball given in 1897 by a previous Duchess of Devonshire.^[1]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Lady Sophia Topley

16. Edward Cavendish               8. Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire                       17. Emma Lascelles               4. Edward Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire                             18. Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne               9. Evelyn Petty-Fitzmaurice                       19. Maud Evelyn Hamilton               2. Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire                                   20. Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury               10. James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury                       21. Georgina Alderson               5. Mary Alice Gascoyne-Cecil                             22. Arthur Gore, 5th Earl of Arran               11. Cicely Gore                       23. Edith Elizabeth Henrietta Jocelyn               1. Lady Sophia Cavendish Topley                                         24. Henry Reveley-Mitford               12. Algernon Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale                       25. Georgiana Ashburnham               6. David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale                             26. David Graham Drummond Ogilvy, 10th Earl of Airlie               13. Clementina Ogilvy                       27. Blanche Stanley               3. Deborah Freeman-Mitford                                   28. Thomas Milner Gibson               14. Thomas Gibson Bowles                       29. Susannah Bowles               7. Sydney Bowles                             30. Charles Evans-Gordon               15. Jessica Evans-Gordon                       31. Catharine Rose

References

1. Hutchinson, Diana (15 July 1984). "Why the Devonshires needed $34 million". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 131. Retrieved 22 October 2010.