Frances Lee, Countess of Lichfield


Frances Hales, later Countess of Lichfield, was an English aristocrat and philanthropist.
She was the daughter of Sir John Hales, 4th Bt, and grew up at Hales Place near Canterbury, Kent.
She married George Lee, 2nd Earl of Lichfield, at a private ceremony before May 1718.
They had nine children together:
  1. Lady Charlotte Lee, who married Henry Dillon, 11th Viscount Dillon
  2. Edward Henry Lee
  3. Charles Henry Lee
  4. Lady Mary Lee
  5. George Henry Lee, 3rd Earl of Lichfield
  6. Lady Frances Lee, who is thought to have married Henry Hyde, Viscount Cornbury
  7. Frances Lee, who died in infancy
  8. Lady Henrietta Lee, who married John Bellew, 4th Baron Bellew of Duleek
  9. Lady Anne Lee, who married Hugh Clifford, 4th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, and had children
She was one of the signatories to Thomas Coram's petition to King George II to establish the Foundling Hospital, which she signed on 27 April 1730.
She died on 3 February 1769.