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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).
6 de jan. de 2023 · Alongside her illustrious husband, she enjoyed a dizzying ascent from Viscountess Thurles and Baroness Dingwall in her own right, to countess, marchioness, and then duchess of Ormonde. At the peak of their power, she and the duke were the most influential couple in 17th-century Ireland.
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
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.
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...
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.
At the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball, Elizabeth Butler, Marchioness of Ormonde was dressed as Guinevere,: p. 5, Col. 7a and, according to the Times, leading the 21-person procession of Queen Guinevere and the Knights of the Round Table of King Arthur.
