Chandos's first marriage was to Margaret Nicol (1736–1768), daughter of John Nicol of
Colney Hatch and
Minchenden House, and his wife Winifred Keck, on 22 March 1753. They set up a London home at 39
Upper Grosvenor Street,
Mayfair. Margaret inherited much of the great fortune acquired by her grandfather Sir
Anthony Keck, and was the owner of a famous portrait of
Shakespeare, which came to be known as the
Chandos portrait following the marriage. A decade after the death of his first wife, and having become Duke of Chandos in 1771, he married
Anne Eliza Gamon, daughter of Richard Gamon of Datchworth Bury,
Datchworth, on 21 June 1777. This second marriage produced the only child to survive to adulthood,
Lady Anne Elizabeth Brydges (Lady Kinloss, died 1836) His widow was declared a
lunatic and confined to their London home,
Chandos House; after her death in 1813, the unexpired lease was sold. She was also made a
ward of court. There was a lengthy
lawsuit in the Irish Courts over the management of her property. In 1794 judge
Richard Power,
accountant-general and usher of the Court of Chancery, was accused of misappropriating some of the duchess's income and died in a presumed suicide. ==References==