[3] They had ten children, including: The Duchess of Bedford was a great patroness of the arts, and had a longstanding relationship with the painter Sir Edwin Landseer, a man twenty years her junior.

[5] In 1818, the Duke and Duchess of Bedford leased the Invereshie shootings in Badenoch from George Macpherson Grant of Ballindalloch, beginning a lifelong sporting association with Glen Feshie.

In 1829, the Bedfords moved to the Mackintosh shootings on the east side of the glen, making the Doune House of Rothiemurchus their base.

[7] The lodge, previously occupied by General Sir John Fraser and then a Major Colegrave, was a simple Regency villa.

After the Duke's death in 1839, the Dowager Duchess continued to live at Bedford Lodge and made it a famous centre for social gatherings.