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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:

  1. Anthony Murphy - 20 October 1979, and they divorced childless in 1987.
  2. The Honourable Alastair Morrison - 19 July 1988, who in 2003 succeeded as 3rd Baron Margadale. They had two children, Declan James (born 11 July 1993) and Nancy Lorna (born 22 January 1995, named after Lady Sophia's aunt the novelist Nancy Mitford). The marriage ended in divorce.
  3. William Topley - 25 November 1999, an artist

Books

As Lady Sophia Murphy, she is the author of The Duchess of Devonshire's Ball (London: Sedgwick & Jackson, 1984), a photoalbum 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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