Harriet Tyrwhitt, 12th Baroness Berners

, by Robert Scott Tait, 1841 Harriet was born on 18 November 1835. She was the daughter of the Rev. Hon. Robert Wilson (1801–1850) and his second wife (and cousin), Harriet ( Crump) Sheppard. Her father served as Rector of Ashwellthorpe. His father's first wife was Emma Pigott, a daughter of Col. Piggott of Doddershall Park, and her mother's first husband was John Sheppard. She had an elder brother, Harry William Piggott Wilson, who died in 1853. After her father's death in 1850, her mother married Very Rev. Edward Hoare, Dean of Waterford. Her paternal grandparents were Henry Wilson, 10th Baron Berners and the former Elizabeth Sumpter (a daughter of Thomas Sumpter, of Histon Hall). Her mother was a daughter and co-heiress of Col. George Crump, of Allexton Hall and the former Mary Wilson (the third daughter of Henry William Wilson, of Didlington Hall and Ashwellthorpe Hall, who was a sister of the 9th and 10th Barons Berners). ==Peerage==

On 27 June 1871, she succeeded her uncle Henry, who had served as the President of the Royal Agricultural Society in 1858, Lady Berners was known to be "extremely religious", holding household prayer services for her staff, and "violently low-church," describing herself in ''Who's Who'' as "distinctly low". ==Personal life==

) in Vanity Fair, 1886 On 3 November 1853, Harriet married Sir Henry Tyrwhitt, 3rd Baronet of Stanley Hall, at St. Michael's, Pimlico. Sir Henry, a Lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade, was the son of Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt-Jones, 2nd Baronet (son of Thomas Tyrwhitt Jones, MP) and Eliza Walwyn Macnamara (the youngest daughter of John Macnamara, of Saint Kitts, West Indies). Together, they were the parents of nine sons and three daughters: who served as Equerry to the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) and was involved in the Royal baccarat scandal; he lived at Keythorpe Hall and died unmarried. Private Secretary to First Lord of the Admiralty, and aide-de-camp to the Prince of Wales (later King George V); he married Julia Mary Foster, daughter of William Orme Foster, MP, of Apley Hall, in 1882. After his death in 1907, Julia married Col. William Ward Bennitt, of Stoke Green House, in 1908. • Hon. Clement Tyrwhitt (1857–1939), who married Annie Webb, a daughter of John Webb, of Adelaide, Australia, in 1884. • Hon. Thomas Knyvet Tyrwhitt (1864–1886), who died unmarried. who died unmarried. As her eldest son predeceased her, the barony passed to her second son, Sir Raymond, who had already inherited the Tyrwhitt baronetcy upon her husband's death in 1894. upon whose death her husband's baronetcy became extinct. The barony, however, passed to her granddaughter, Vera, the eldest child of her fifth son, Rupert. ==References==