Person:Maria Semple (2)

Maria Janet Sempill

• The Scots Peerage by Paul, James

Page 565, 566 – Maria Janet, Baroness Sempill, born in 1790, married, 14 January 1836, at St. John’s Episcopal Chapel, Greenock, to Edward Candler, of Callan, County Kilkenny, of Moreton Pinkney, Northamptonshire, and of Dun Edin and Belwood, co. Midlothian, who by royal license, 23 August 1853, assumed the name of Sempill instead of that of Candler. He, who was born 3 January 1803, and baptized at Tadcaster, died 7 April 1871. She died 5 September 1884, aged ninety-four, at Moreton Pinkney, and was buried in the Chapel Royal at Holyrood Palace Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, being succeeded by her cousin under the terms of the regrant of 1685.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Maria Janet Sempill, in Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Paul, James Balfour. The Scots peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's ‘Peerage of Scotland’ containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom, with armorial illustrations. (Edinburgh: D. Douglas, 1904-1914)
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   Page 565, 566 – Maria Janet, Baroness Sempill, born in 1790, married, 14 January 1836, at St. John’s Episcopal Chapel, Greenock, to Edward Candler, of Callan, co. Kilkenny, of Morton Pinckney, Northamptonshire, and of Dun Edin and Belwood, co. Midlothian, who by royal license, 23 August 1853, assumed the name of Sempill instead of that of Candler. He, who was born 3 January 1803, and baptized at Tadcaster, died 7 April 1871. She died 5 September 1884, aged ninety-four, at Morton Pinckney, and was buried in the Chapel Royal at Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, being succeeded by her cousin under the terms of the regrant of 1685.