- Cecil de Cardonnel, 2nd Baroness Dynevor
Cecil de Cardonnel, 2nd Baroness Dynevor (July
1735 –March 14 ,1793 ) was a Welsh peeress.She was the daughter of
William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot . Her mother was the daughter and heir ofAdam de Cardonnel , British Secretary of War. Under the special remainder in the creation of the barony for her father, she and her heirs male were entitled to inherit the barony of Dynevor. He father was also the 1st Earl Talbot (a title that became extinct on his death) and 2nd Baron Talbot of Hensol. (That title was inherited by Lady Dynevor’s cousin, John Chetwynd-Talbot.On
16 August 1756 she married George Rice. Rice was aMember of Parliament for countyCarmarthen between 1754 and 1779 andLord Lieutenant of Carmarthen from 1755 to 1779. Rice died3 August 1779 . The widowed Mrs Rice, took, by royal license, the surname of de Cardonnel from21 May 1787 .She succeeded to the title in 1782, upon the death of her father. She died
14 March 1793 , atDynevor Castle , aged 57.The title passed to her elder son, George Talbot Rice who become the 3rd Baron Dynevor, resuming his paternal surname of Rice in 1827.
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