DERBY, CHARLOTTE COUNTESS OF

DERBY, CHARLOTTE COUNTESS OF
   wife of the 7th Earl who was taken prisoner at Worcester in 1651, and was beheaded at Bolton; famous for her gallant defence of Lathom House against the Parliamentary forces, which she was obliged to surrender; lived to see the Restoration; d. 1663.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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