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3 unusual facts about Elizabeth Wynne Fremantle


Elizabeth Wynne Fremantle

Elizabeth married Fremantle in 1797, after he had rescued her and her family from Leghorn (Livorno) during the 1796 French invasion of Italy and taken them to safety in Corsica.

The Betsey Wynne public house and restaurant in Swanbourne, Buckinghamshire, was built in 2006 by the Fremantle Trust run by Thomas Henry Fremantle and his father John Fremantle, 5th Baron Cottesloe.

They received a good deal of hospitality from the family of Lord Buckingham, who lived nearby at Stowe.



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