Anne Cecil, Countess of Exeter

She was the only daughter of William Cavendish, 3rd Earl of Devonshire, and his wife, the former Elizabeth Cecil, and was born at Latimer, Buckinghamshire, the home of her grandmother, Christian Cavendish, Countess of Devonshire, where her parents were living at the time because their estate of Chatsworth had been sequestered by Parliament.

Her first marriage, in 1662, was to Charles, Lord Rich, son of the 4th Earl of Warwick.

Other children included Elizabeth (1687-1708), later Countess of Orrery.

[3] The earl and countess lived at Burghley House, where the earl accumulated a large art collection as a result of his European travels.

A portrait of her, by Godfrey Kneller, hung in the "brown dining room" at Burghley.