Jane Granville, Countess of Bath

Jane was a daughter of Sir Peter Wyche, English ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, and his wife, the former Jane Meredith.[2] Among her siblings were Sir Peter Wyche, the English Ambassador to Russia and Poland,[3] and Sir Cyril Wyche, President of the Royal Society.[2]

Her paternal grandparents were merchant Richard Wyche and Elizabeth (née Saltonstall) Wyche (a daughter of Sir Richard Saltonstall, Lord Mayor of London). Her uncle, Nathaniel Wyche, was a merchant and president of the East India Company.[4][5]

Her husband, John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath

She married the future earl in October 1652 at Kilkhampton.[6] He received his earldom at the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, making his wife a countess. The couple's children included:[2]

• Charles Granville, 2nd Earl of Bath (1661–1701), eldest son and heir, who married twice: first, to Lady Martha Osborne (d. 1689), daughter of Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, and second, to Isabella van Nassau (1668-1692).[7]
• Lady Jane Granville (c. 1653-1696),[8] who married Sir William Leveson-Gower, 4th Baronet, and had children, including John Leveson-Gower, 1st Baron Gower.[9]
• Lady Catherine Granville, who married Craven Peyton, MP for Boroughbridge, and had no children.[10]
• 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.[6]
• John Granville, 1st Baron Granville of Potheridge (1665–1707),[9] 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)[11] and was buried on the same day as his father.[6] The title passed to Charles's only son, William, who died of smallpox, aged 19, in 1711.[12][13]