Elizabeth Carver

Elizabeth Carver

Elizabeth Hobart Carver was the wife of Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein. She was a widow from a previous marriage. The Viscount and Elizabeth were married in 1927. Their son, David Bernard Montgomery, was born in August 1928.

Death

In 1937, she was bitten by an insect while on holiday in Burnham-on-Sea. The bite became infected and she died on 19 October 1937 from septicaemia following an amputation. The loss devastated then Brigadier Montgomery, but he insisted on throwing himself back into his work immediately after the funeral.

Son

David Montgomery, 2nd Viscount Montgomery of Alamein was born on 18 August 1928. He first married Mary Raymond Connell, daughter of Sir Charles Connell, on 27 February 1953. They divorced in 1967. David Bernard Montgomery and Mary Raymond Connell had a son, Hon. Henry David Montgomery, born on 2 April 1954.Then he married, Tessa Browning, daughter of Lt.-Gen. Sir Frederick Arthur Montague Browning and Daphne du Maurier, in 1970.

He succeeded to the title of 2nd Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, of Hindhead, co. Surrey [U.K., 1946] on 24 March 1976.

Source

Peter W. Hammond, editor, The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda (Stroud, Gloucestershire, U.K.: Sutton Publishing, 1998), page 775.

External links

* [http://www.thepeerage.com/p21864.htm ThePeerage.com - Person Page 21864 ] at www.ThePeerage.com: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe


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