Augusta Stanley, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Augusta Stanley

Scottish lady in waiting to Queen Victoria

Date of Birth: 03-Apr-1822

Date of Death: 01-Mar-1876

Profession: writer, lady-in-waiting

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Lady Augusta Elizabeth Frederica Stanley (3 April 1822 - 1 March 1876), was daughter of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin and Elizabeth Oswald, Countess of Elgin.
She was brought up in Paris after her father died.
She was lady in waiting to Queen Victoria.
She met and later 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. She is buried alongside her husband in Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey.
A memorial to Lady Augusta, commissioned by Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, stands at Frogmore.