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Lady Sophia Topley
Born	Lady Sophia Louise Sydney Cavendish (1957-03-18) 18 March 1957 (age 67)
Nationality	British
Other names	Lady Sophia Murphy
Occupation(s)	Writer, aristocrat
Spouses	Anthony Murphy (m. 1979; div. 1987) Alastair Morrison (m. 1988, divorced) William Topley (m. 1999)
Children	2
Parent(s)	Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire Deborah Mitford
Relatives	Stella Tennant (niece)

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

Marriages

Lady Sophia has been married three times:

She married Anthony William Lindsay Murphy on 20 October 1979 and they were divorced in 1987. They had no children.

Her second marriage was to the Hon. Anthony Morrison (later the 3rd Baron Margadale), on 19 July 1988; they were divorced some time before 1999. They have two children:

Hon. Declan James Morrison (11 July 1993)
Hon. Nancy Lorna Sophie Morrison (22 January 1995)

She married William Topley on 25 November 1999.

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.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Lady Sophia Topley

16. Lord 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. Lady 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 Gascoyne-Cecil

22. Arthur Gore, 5th Earl of Arran

11. Cicely Gore

23. Hon. Edith Jocelyn

1. Lady Sophia Cavendish

24. Henry Reveley-Mitford

12. Algernon Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale

25. Georgiana Ashburnham

6. David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale

26. David Ogilvy, 10th Earl of Airlie

13. Clementina Ogilvy

27. Hon. 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

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

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