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==Books== ==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.<ref name="Hutchinson">{{cite web|url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3jFWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IucDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5454,7984843&dq=lady-sophia-murphy+the+duchess+of+devonshire's+ball&hl=en|title=Why the Devonshires needed $34 million|last=Hutchinson|first=Diana|date=15 July 1984|work=]|page=131|accessdate=22 October 2010}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Hutchinson">{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3jFWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IucDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5454,7984843&dq=lady-sophia-murphy+the+duchess+of+devonshire's+ball&hl=en|title=Why the Devonshires needed $34 million|last=Hutchinson|first=Diana|date=15 July 1984|work=]|page=131|accessdate=22 October 2010}}</ref>


==Ancestry== ==Ancestry==

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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:

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

She remarried Alastair Morrison, 3rd Baron Margadale on 19 July 1988 and they were divorced. They have two children:

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

She remarried again 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

Family 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.
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