Derby, Charlotte Countess of, wife of the 7th Earl who was taken prisoner at Worcester in 1651, and was beheaded at Bolton; famous for her gallant defence of Lathom House against the Parliamentary forces, which she was obliged to surrender; lived to see the Restoration; (d. 1663).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Derby * Derby, 14th Earl of