Jane Granville, Countess of Bath

Jane Granville, Countess of Bath ( Wyche; 1630 – 3 February 1692), was the wife of John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, and the mother of the 2nd Earl. She was a Lady of the Bedchamber to Catherine of Braganza, the queen consort of King Charles II of England.

Early life Jane was a daughter of Peter Wyche, English ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, and his wife, the former Jane Meredith. Among her siblings were Peter Wyche, the English Ambassador to Russia and Poland, and Cyril Wyche, President of the Royal Society.

Marriage and issue

She married the future earl in October 1652 at Kilkhampton. Lady Jane Granville (-1696), who married Sir William Leveson-Gower, 4th Baronet, and had children, including John Leveson-Gower, 1st Baron Gower. Lady Grace Granville, suo jure 1st Countess Granville (1654–1744), who married George Carteret, 1st Baron Carteret of Haynes Park, Bedfordshire, and was later made a peer in her own right as Viscountess Carteret and Countess Granville. who married Rebecca Child and had no children

The earl outlived his wife and died in 1701, but was followed within a fortnight by his son and heir, the 2nd Earl, who is thought to have committed suicide by shooting himself (possibly because the debts he had inherited exceeded his income) and was buried on the same day as his father. The title passed to Charles's only son, William, who died of smallpox, aged 19, in 1711.