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Susanna Temple

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English courtier (1600–1669)
Portrait of Susanna Temple, later Lady Lister (1620), byCornelius Johnson

Susanna Temple, Lady Lister (formerlyThornhurst; 1600-1669) was an English courtier.

A daughter ofAlexander Temple ofEtchingham and Mary Penistone,nee Mary Sommer or Somers (a daughter ofJohn Somers),[1][2] she is said to have been amaid of honour toAnne of Denmark.[3] However, she is not known to be named in any records of the court.[4]

Susanna Temple, Lady Lister (1621)

Her portrait was painted byCornelius Johnson in 1620. She is depicted wearing a drop earring, including amartlet, the bird is part of the Temple coat of arms.[5]

Another portrait was painted in 1621 by an artist working in the manner ofMarcus Gheeraerts the Younger. There is also a miniature in the manner ofNicholas Hilliard, with her hair down.[citation needed]

She marriedSir Gifford Thornhurst ofAgney Court, Kent (d. 1627), the son ofWilliam Thornhurst (d. 1606) and Anne Howard, a daughter ofThomas Howard, Viscount Bindon.[6] Their daughter Frances, born after the death of Gifford in 1627, and named after one of his sisters, was the mother ofSarah Jennings, Duchess of Marlborough.

In 1626 her sister-in-law Grace Thornhurst (d. 1636) married the poetMildmay Fane. Her brother-in-law, Thomas Thornhurst wrote a description ofLanzarote.[7]

As a widow she was involved in litigation over a debt toSir John Lambe.[8]

Her second husband wasSir Martin Lister ofThorpe Arnold, nephew ofMatthew Lister, one of Anne of Denmark's physicians, and friend ofMary Sidney.[9] Their sonMartin Lister became physician toQueen Anne.[10] Some of her letters to Martin at college in Oxford survive.[11]

She died in 1669.

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  1. ^R. H. D'Elboux, "Coats of Arms in Queenborough Castle",Archaeologia Cantiana, 58 (London, 1945), pp. 14–15.
  2. ^Elizabeth Askren, 'Susanna Temple Thornhurst Lister', in Carole Levin, Anna Riehl Bertolet, Jo Eldridge Carney,A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen (Routledge, 2017), pp. 101-102.
  3. ^James Granger,A Biographical History of England, vol. 1 part 2 (London, 1769), p. 554.
  4. ^Elizabeth Askren, 'Susanna Temple Thornhurst Lister', in Carole Levin, Anna Riehl Bertolet, Jo Eldridge Carney,A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen (Routledge, 2017), p. 101.
  5. ^James Granger,A Biographical History of England, vol. 1 part 2 (London, 1769), p. 554: Karen Hearn,Cornelius Johnson (Paul Holberton, 2015), pp. 12-13: Karen Hearn,Dynasties: Painting in Tudor and Jacobean England, 1530-1630 (London, 1996), p. 216: Granger says there was a portrait in her wedding costume.
  6. ^John Nichols,Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica, vol. 1 (London, 1790), p. 104,Herne, Kent.
  7. ^Tom Cain,The Poetry of Mildmay Fane, Second Earl of Westmorland (Manchester, 2001), pp. 11, 417: The inscription at Herne, however, states that Gifford was an only son.
  8. ^John Bruce,Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Charles I: 1631-1633 (London, 1862), p. 496.
  9. ^Anne Marie Roos,The Correspondence of Dr Martin Lister: 1662–1677, vol. 1 (Leiden: Brill, 2015), p. 7.
  10. ^James Granger,A Biographical History of England, vol. 1 part 2 (London, 1769), p. 554.
  11. ^Anna Marie Roos,The Correspondence of Dr Martin Lister: 1662–1677, vol. 1 (Leiden: Brill, 2015), p. 141.
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