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| Keywords: people She was the wife of Henry Bourchier, 5th Earl of Bath. On 13 December 1638 he married, she aged 25 and he c50, in the Mildmay family church, St. Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield, Rachael (1612/13-1680), fifth daughter of Sir Francis Fane, KB, MP (c1581-1628), (created Baron Burghersh and Earl of Westmorland in 1624, and from 1626 he was (8th) Baron Le Despencer, de jure matris), by his wife Mary (died 1640), (married 15 February 1598/99), daughter and eventually sole heir of Sir Anthony Mildmay, KT, MP, (c1549-1617), of Apethorpe Hall, ambassador to Paris, by his wife Grace (1552-1620) daughter and co-heir of Sir Henry Sherington (Sharington) (c. 1518-1581) of Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire. They lived at Bath House, 53/54 Lincoln's Inn Fields (from 1640); otherwise at Tawstock, North Devon; Clare Castle, near Tandragee, co. Armagh; at Bourchier Castle, Lough Gur, near Bruff, Limerick. Bourchier Castle was a tower house, originally built by the Desmonds (FitzGeralds) still stands, though Clare Castle, 'a stoney house or castle of lime', a 100 by 80-foot (24 m) fortified house, is a ruin. She was the wife of Henry Bourchier, 5th Earl of Bath. On 13 December 1638 he married, she aged 25 and he c50, in the Mildmay family church, St. Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield, Rachael (1612/13-1680), fifth daughter of Sir Francis Fane, KB, MP (c1581-1628), (created Baron Burghersh and Earl of Westmorland in 1624, and from 1626 he was (8th) Baron Le Despencer, de jure matris), by his wife Mary (died 1640), (married 15 February 1598/99), daughter and eventually sole heir of Sir Anthony Mildmay, KT, MP, (c1549-1617), of Apethorpe Hall, ambassador to Paris, by his wife Grace (1552-1620) daughter and co-heir of Sir Henry Sherington (Sharington) (c. 1518-1581) of Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire. They lived at Bath House, 53/54 Lincoln's Inn Fields (from 1640); otherwise at Tawstock, North Devon; Clare Castle, near Tandragee, co. Armagh; at Bourchier Castle, Lough Gur, near Bruff, Limerick. Bourchier Castle was a tower house, originally built by the Desmonds (FitzGeralds) still stands, though Clare Castle, 'a stoney house or castle of lime', a 100 by 80-foot (24 m) fortified house, is a ruin. | ||||
