[1][2][3] At her father's death in 1813, Frances Anne inherited extensive lands in northeast England as well as some property in County Antrim, Ireland.

[5] She became an object of affection for Tsar Alexander I after he happened to see her engagement portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence.

[6] She sought to promote the political career of her eldest son, George Vane-Tempest, and was a patron of Benjamin Disraeli.

[7] She built Garron Tower north of Carnlough, County Antrim, as a summer residence for herself.

[8] When her husband died in 1854, she commissioned an equestrian statue showing him as a hussar,[9] which was unveiled in 1861 and still stands on the market place in Durham, England.