Frances Newton, Baroness Cobham

Frances Newton, Baroness Cobham (1539 – 17 October 1592) was an English aristocratic woman who served Queen Elizabeth I of England as a Lady of the Bedchamber, and was one of her closest female friends.

[2] Later in Elizabeth's reign, Frances's sisters, Katherine and Nazareth also entered the Queen's service as chamberers.

[2] In the summer of 1574 she was visited by a physician, James Good, and told him that she intended to send a medicine called mithridate as a gift to Mary, Queen of Scots.

[3] On 25 February 1560 at Westminster Palace, Westminster, London,[4] Frances married William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham, whose first wife, Dorothy Neville (d.1559), the daughter of George Nevill, 5th Baron Bergavenny by his third wife, Mary Stafford, had died, leaving him a daughter, Frances Brooke, who married firstly Thomas Coppinger (1546-1580), and secondly Edward Becher.

They made their home at the Brooke family seat, Cobham Hall in Kent, where Queen Elizabeth paid them a visit on 17 July 1560 during her summer progress,[2] and many years later on 4 September 1573.