Emma Wilson, 7th and 12th Baroness Berners

Emma Harriet Tyrwhitt, 12th Baroness Berners (18 November 1835 – 18 August 1917) was a suo jure Baroness in the Peerage of England.

Early life

Harriet was born on 18 November 1835. She was the daughter of the Rev. Hon. Robert Wilson (1801–1850) and his second wife (and cousin), Harriet ( Crump) Sheppard. Her father served as Rector of Ashwellthorpe. His father's first wife was Emma Pigott, a daughter of Col. Piggott of Doddershall Park, and her mother's first husband was John Sheppard. She had an elder brother, Harry William Piggott Wilson, who died in 1853. After her father's death in 1850, her mother married Very Rev. Edward Hoare, Dean of Waterford.

Lady Berners was known to be "extremely religious", holding household prayer services for her staff, and "violently low-church," describing herself in Who's Who as "distinctly low". Together, they were the parents of nine sons and three daughters: who served as Equerry to the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) and was involved in the Royal baccarat scandal; he lived at Keythorpe Hall and died unmarried. Private Secretary to First Lord of the Admiralty, and aide-de-camp to the Prince of Wales (later King George V); he married Julia Mary Foster, daughter of William Orme Foster, MP, of Apley Hall, in 1882. After his death in 1907, Julia married Col. William Ward Bennitt, of Stoke Green House, in 1908. Hon. Clement Tyrwhitt (1857–1939), who married Annie Webb, a daughter of John Webb, of Adelaide, Australia, in 1884. Hon. Thomas Knyvet Tyrwhitt (1864–1886), who died unmarried. who died unmarried. As her eldest son predeceased her, the barony passed to her second son, Sir Raymond, who had already inherited the Tyrwhitt baronetcy upon her husband's death in 1894. upon whose death her husband's baronetcy became extinct. The barony, however, passed to her granddaughter, Vera, the eldest child of her fifth son, Rupert.