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Early years and marriage

Louisa Her­vey was born in Feb­ru­ary 1767, the youngest daugh­ter of Fred­er­ick Her­vey, 4th Earl of Bris­tol and Bishop of Derry, and Eliz­a­beth Dav­ers Count­ess of Bris­tol. She had three broth­ers, in­clud­ing John, Lord Her­vey and Fred­er­ick, 1st Mar­quess of Bris­tol; and two sis­ters, Lady Mary Erne and Eliz­a­beth Cavendish, Duchess of De­von­shire. In 1777 the fam­ily vis­ited Italy. Here Louisa, then aged 10, con­tracted se­vere malaria and, due to the need to con­va­lesce, onl...

Statesman's wife

In the years after their mar­riage, Robert held var­i­ous po­lit­i­cal posts, en­ter­ing the cab­i­net in 1801. He con­tin­ued to sit in the House of Com­mons until 1803 when, as Baron Hawkes­bury, he was el­e­vated to the House of Lords. He be­came 2nd Earl of Liv­er­pool on the death of his fa­ther in De­cem­ber 1808. Louisa, who had been Baroness of Hawkes­bury since 1803, now be­came Count­ess of Liverpool. Robert was ap­pointed Prime Min­is­ter in June 1812, suc­ceed­ing the as­sas­si­na...

Health and death

Lady Louisa was not strong phys­i­cally and while she en­joyed her po­si­tion, in­clud­ing at­tend­ing of­fi­cial events and en­ter­tain­ing, she eas­ily tired and was prone to colds and headaches. As early as 1801 she some­times took opium based draughts to help her sleep. In 1816, aged 49, she be­came suf­fi­ciently ill for the Prince Re­gent to ex­press concern. Al­though her health im­proved, she did not fully re­cover, and by early 1818 re­ports of her ill health began to ap­pear in the...