1st Earl of Ypres

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John French, 1st Earl Of Ypres - Family
... He married Eleanora Selby-Lowndes - one of seven sisters known as the “Belles of Bletchley” - in 1880 they had two sons and two daughters ... Neither his second wife, nor his daughter Essex who died in 1979, were ever aware of his first marriage ...

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