Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    OR2318
  • Title
    Papers of Fanny Stackhouse Acton (1794-1881) including her Autobiography, and letters to Frederica
  • Date free text
    1828-1881
  • Production date
    From: 1828 To: 1881
  • Admin/biog history
    Fanny Stackhouse Acton was the eldest daughter of Thomas Andrew Knight. Thomas Andrew Knight having inherited Downton Castle from his brother Richard Payne Knight. Fanny's sister, Charlotte, married William Edward Rouse Boughton and Charlotte and William inherited Downton Castle from Thomas Andrew Knight. One of their daughters was Frederica St John Rouse Boughton who married Richard Orlebar. Frederica St John Orlebar was therefore Fanny's niece. Like her father and sister Fanny was a scientist. She was a botanist, archaeologist, writer and artist. In 1812 Fanny married Thomas Pendarves Stackhouse Acton (d.1835) of Acton Scott. They had one child, a daughter, who died at the age of 17.
  • Level of description
    file
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