Anne Lovelace, 7th Baroness Wentworth

Anne Lovelace, 7th Baroness Wentworth ( Wentworth) (29 July 1623 – 7 May 1697) was an English peeress.

Early life She was a daughter of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Cleveland (1591–1667) and the former Anne Crofts (died 1638). Her elder brother Thomas Wentworth was MP for Bedfordshire until he inherited the barony of Wentworth by writ of acceleration in 1640. Their father was a prominent English landowner and Royalist general during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. After her mother's death in 1638, her father married Lucy Wentworth (a daughter of Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet, of Gosfield), with whom he had another daughter, Catherine (who married William Spencer, brother of Nicholas Spencer). Hon. Margaret Lovelace (–1671), who married Sir William Noel, 2nd Baronet, in 1660. Hon. Dorothy Lovelace (1650–1684), who married Henry Drax of Drax Hall, a plantation owner in Barbados who was the son of Sir James Drax.

Lord Lovelace died in 1670. Lady Wentworth died on 7 May 1697, after which her title passed to her granddaughter Hon. Martha Johnson (wife of shipbuilder Sir Henry Johnson), as her son, who had inherited his father's barony, predeceased her. Martha also inherited Water Eaton, her estate in Oxfordshire, and Toddington, her estate in Bedfordshire. Upon her son's death, the Lovelace barony passed to his cousin William's son, John Lovelace, 4th Baron Lovelace, who became Governor of the Province of New York.

Descendants Through her daughter Margaret, she was a grandmother of Sir Thomas Noel, 3rd Baronet (1662–1688) and Sir John Noel, 4th Baronet (1668–1697). Through Sir John, she was a great-grandmother to Sir Clobery Noel, 5th Baronet, MP for Leicestershire, who was the father of Edward Noel, who succeeded Anne's granddaughter Martha as 9th Baron Wentworth in 1745.