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Philippa Stewart, Countess of Galloway (née Philippa Fendall Wendell) (June 24, 1905 – February 2, 1974), was an American heiress who married into the Scottish aristocracy.

Early life

Philippa was born on June 24, 1905. She was the second daughter of Marian (née Fendall) Wendell (d. 1949) and Jacob Wendell III (d. 1911), of New York and Sandridgebury, Sandridge, Hertfordshire. Her elder sister, Catherine Wendell, was the first wife of Henry Herbert, 6th Earl of Carnarvon. Her brothers were Jacob Wendell (who married Eileen V. Carr) and Reginald Lee Wendell.

Her father, a Harvard graduate and Broadway actor, died of pneumonia shortly before he was to appear in the leading role in What the Doctor Ordered at the Astor Theatre. Her maternal grandfather was Union soldier, Philip Richard Fendall III, and her great-grandparents were Elizabeth Mary (née Young) Fendall and Philip Richard Fendall II, the District Attorney of the District of Columbia. Her paternal grandfather was the prominent merchant Jacob Wendell of Jacob Wendell Co.

Personal life

On 14 October 1924, Philippa married Randolph Stewart, 12th Earl of Galloway at St Margaret's, Westminster. Randolph, the only son of Amy Mary Pauline Cliffe and Randolph Stewart, 11th Earl of Galloway, was educated at Harrow and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst before serving with the Scots Guards during World War I. Randolph and Philippa had the following children:

• Lady Antonia Marian Amy Isabel Stewart (1925–2017), who married Mark Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet of New Hailes.
• Randolph Keith Reginald Stewart, 13th Earl of Galloway (1928–2020), who married Lily May Budge, from a working-class family from Duns.<

The Galloway family seat was Cumloden House, near Newton Stewart, Dumfries and Galloway. Before her marriage to Lord Galloway, the family had sold Galloway House, near Garlieston, in 1908. The countess was president of the Stewartry, Kirkcudbrightshire, branch of the British Red Cross Society for many years.

Lady Galloway died at Dumfries Infirmary on 22 February 1974. Lord Galloway died on 13 June 1978 at which time he was succeeded in his titles by their son, Randolph. On his death, the earldom and other titles passed to her husband's second cousin once removed, Andrew Clyde Stewart, a great-great-grandson of the 9th Earl.

References

1. "£7,150 ESTATE Equal Shares for Three". The Daily Telegraph. 31 January 1950. p. 16. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
2. "A DAY'S WEDDINGS.; Wendell -- Fendall". The New York Times. 17 April 1895. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
3. "TO WED LORD PORCHESTER.; Engagement of Miss Catherine Wendell of New York Announced". The New York Times. 1 June 1922. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
4. "COUNTESS CARNARVON NOW HAS A DAUGHTER; Second Child Is Born to Former Catherine Wendell, Wife of Lord Potchester". The New York Times. 5 March 1925. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
5. TIMES, Wireless to THE NEW YORK (18 July 1928). "REGINALD LEE WENDELL.; Brother of Countess Carnarvon Dies at 29 Following a Collapse". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
6. "ASTOR'S PLAY POSTPONED.; Jacob Wendell, Jr., Cast in Principal Role, Stricken with Pneumonia". The New York Times. 20 April 1911. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
7. "JACOB WENDELL, JR., IS DEAD.; Actor and Harvard Graduate Dies of Pneumonia -- Acted in "The Blue Bird."". The New York Times. 23 April 1911. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
8. Times, Special to The New York (16 March 1901). "JACOB WENDELL'S WILL.; Most of the Estate Left to His Widow -- Bequests for Harvard College and Other Institutions". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
9. "MISS WENDELL WED TO EARL GALLOWAY Daughter of Late Jacob Wendell of New York Married to Scottish Peer. SHE HAS TEN ATTENDANTS Bride-to-Be Is Sister of Lady Carnarvon -- Miss May I. Gavin Weds John D. Schoonmaker J.r." The New York Times. 15 October 1924. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
10. TIMES, Special Cable to THE NEW YORK (12 July 1924). "Philippa Wendell Will Also Wed an Earl; Elder Sister Is Wife of Earl of Carnarvon". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
11. Lady Antonia Dalrymple Daily Telegraph, 25 July 2017
12. Who was who: A Companion to "Who's Who". St. Martin's Press. 1971. ISBN 978-0-312-87746-0. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
13. An Unlikely Countess: Lily Budge and the 13th Earl of Galloway, Louise Carpenter, Harper Collins, 2004, pp. 8
14. ^ "Earl of Galloway". The Times. 25 April 2020. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
15. Carpenter, Louise (2004). An unlikely countess: Lily Budge and the 13th Earl of Galloway. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-710880-0.
16. "Galloway House | History & Heritage". scotlandstartshere.com. Scotland Starts Here. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
17. ^ "COUNTESS OF GALLOWAY". The Daily Telegraph. 23 February 1974. p. 8. Retrieved 12 May 2022.

External links

• Philippa Fendall Stewart (née Wendell), Countess of Galloway (died 1974), Wife of 12th Earl of Galloway

• 1905 births
• 1977 deaths
• Lee family of Virginia
• Fendall family
• British countesses