Lady Augusta Stanley

Lady Augusta Elizabeth Frederica Stanley (3 April 1822 – 1 March 1876), was daughter of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin and Elizabeth Oswald. She was brought up in Paris after her father died and later served as lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria. She met and married Arthur P. Stanley, Dean of Westminster at the home of Mary Elizabeth Mohl in Paris.

She unveiled Joseph Edgar Boehm's statue of John Bunyan in Bedford in 1874.

Lady Augusta is buried alongside her husband in the Henry VII Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey. A memorial in her honour was commissioned by Queen Victoria and stands at Frogmore.

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