Hon. Frances Brooke

Hon. Frances Brooke (1640 – c. 1690) was a British courtier. She was styled Hon. Frances Brooke, and then Lady Whitmore. She was granted the style of a daughter of a baron.

Frances and her sister Margaret , Lady Denham, were two of the Windsor Beauties, painted by Sir Peter Lely for Anne Hyde, Duchess of York. Her daughter Frances was one of the Hampton Court Beauties.

Family

Her father was Sir William Brooke (1601–1643), and her mother was Penelope Hill ( -c.1694), daughter of Sir Moyses Hill of Hillsborough, County Down and his first wife Alice McDonnell.

She first married Sir Thomas Whitmore ( -1682), younger son of Sir Thomas Whitmore, 1st Baronet and Elizabeth Acton, (married some time before 1665). She then married Matthew Harvey ( -c.1693/94) (married some time after 1682).

Frances had three children with her first husband, Sir Thomas Whitmore:

• Henrietta Whitmore.
• Frances Whitmore (7 November 1666 – 1695).
• Dorothy Whitmore (1668–1688).