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Hace 3 días · Caroline Lamb’s mother, Henrietta Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough, also had numerous lovers including the playwright, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and Lord Granville Leveson-Gower. Ponsonby had two children with Leveson-Gower and manged to conceal her pregnancies from her husband.
Hace 4 días · The bedchamber-woman brought the chocolate, and gave it without kneeling. In general, the bedchamber-woman had no dependence on the lady of the bedchamber. (fn. 1) Starting at four in 1702 their number was increased to five in 1707 and to six in 1709.
Hace 5 días · Ponsonby succeeded to the peerage, becoming 5th Earl of Bessborough, causing a by-election.
Hace 4 días · It was, at a later period, in the family of Rodes, of whom it was purchased in or about the year 1599, by the Countess of Shrewsbury. It has passed, with Hardwicke and other estates, to the Duke of Devonshire.
Hace 3 días · Getty Images. Elizabeth Bathory, a Hungarian noblewoman, was allegedly a serial killer and torturer who bathed in the blood of 650 young women. Now an assistant professor at Cambridge University,...
Hace 3 días · The actor's great-nephew was, a few months afterwards—August 22nd, 1796—killed while endeavouring to effect an entrance into the house from the back garden. The great-nephew, whose name was Yates, claimed a right to the house, as did also a Miss Jones, and both lived in the house for some months after Yates' death.
Hace 3 días · Un’altra miniatura riguarda William Ponsonby, secondo conte di Bessborough, politico britannico di origine irlandese. “Era a Venezia nel maggio 1737, circostanza che permetterebbe di considerare il ritratto in questione una delle ultime miniature eseguite da Rosalba”, spiega il curatore.
