Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley were Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus, and Margaret, daughter of Henry VII of England and widow of James IV of Scotland. It is the common belief that Darnley was born on 7 December, but this is disputed. He was a first cousin and the second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, and was the father of her son James VI of Scotland, who succeeded Elizabeth I of England as James I. Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, was born, at Temple Newsam, Leeds, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England in 1545. However this date is uncertain as his parents were
Edward Bligh, 5th Earl of Darnley was buried at Cobham. He was succeeded in the earldom by his eldest son, John. His wife, "Emma, Dowager Countess of Darnley", died on 15 March 1884. Edward Bligh, 5th Earl of Darnley Edward Bligh, 5th Earl of Darnley, (25 February 1795 – 12 February 1835), styled Lord Clifton until 1831, was a British peer and politician. Darnley was the second but eldest surviving son of John Bligh, 4th Earl of Darnley, and Elizabeth Brownlow, 3rd daughter of the Rt Hon. William Brownlow. He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, matriculating on 22 October 1812, where he