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, 7th Earl of Darnley money like water", greatly reducing the wealth of the Darnleys. On 26 January 1899, he married Jemima Adeline Beatrice Blackwood, daughter of Francis J. L. Blackwood, by whom he had one daughter: Upon his death on 31 October 1900, he was succeeded as Earl of Darnley by his brother Ivo and as Baron Clifton by his infant daughter Elizabeth. Edward Bligh, 7th Earl of Darnley Edward Henry Stuart Bligh, 7th Earl of Darnley (21 August 1851 – 31 October 1900), styled Lord Clifton until 1896, was an English landowner and aristocrat who played first-class cricket for Kent and for other