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Elizabeth Butler, Marchioness of Ormonde (née Lady Elizabeth Harriet Grosvenor; 11 October 1856 – 25 March 1928), was a British aristocrat who was the eldest daughter of Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster and Lady Constance Gertrude Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (daughter of George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland).
Elizabeth Butler, née Preston, Baroness Dingwall, and countess, marchioness, then duchess of Ormonde (1615–84), is the author of the largest body of extant correspondence of any woman from seventeenth-century Ireland, and was arguably the most powerful and well-connected Irish woman of her time.
- Naomi McAreavey
- 2021
Elizabeth Butler, Marchioness of Ormonde, was a British aristocrat who was the eldest daughter of Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster and Lady Constance Gertrude Sutherland-Leveson-Gower. In 1876 she married James Butler, 3rd Marquess of Ormonde and became the Marchioness of Ormonde until her husband's death in 1919.
The miniature has traditionally been identified as Frances Jane Paget, Marchioness of Ormonde (1817 – 1903), wife of John Butler, 2nd Marquess of Ormonde. However, it more closely resembles Elizabeth Harriet Grosvenor, née Leveson-Gower (1857 – 1928), who in 1876 married James Butler, 3rd Marquess of Ormonde.
Photograph of Elizabeth Harriet Grosvenor, Marchioness of Ormonde: head and shoulders portrait, facing the viewer but looking to her right, wearing a fur-lined coat over a dress, with peal necklace. Signed by the sitter as Lilah Ormonde.
9 de jun. de 2021 · The marquess and marchioness of Ormonde were the ultimate power couple of seventeenth-century Ireland. But while James Butler (1610–88) has long been central to Irish historiography, his wife Elizabeth Butler, née Preston (1615–84) has been little more than a footnote in history.
A B S T R A C T. Elizabeth Butler, marchioness of Ormonde, came to prominence during the middle years of the seventeenth centuryas a result of hercare of Protestant refugees in the aftermath of the 1641 rebellion; her royalist exile in Caen; her successful claim to a portion of the confiscated Ormonde estate; and her subsequent retirement to Dun...
