Lady Mary Butler
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Lady Mary Butler (1689 – 2 January 1713) was the second daughter of the 2nd Duke of Ormonde by his second wife Mary, daughter of Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort.[1] She was born at Kilkenny Castle in Ireland.[citation needed]
She married John, 3rd Baron Ashburnham,[1] on 21 October 1710. She died on 2 January 1713 in childbirth.[2][3]
She was Jonathan Swift's "greatest favourite";[4] he wrote "I am in excessive concern for her death, I hardly knew a more valuable person on all accounts."[2]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Handley, Stuart. "Butler, James, second duke of Ormond (1665–1745)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/4193.
Ossory married Lady Mary Somerset (1664/5–1733), daughter of Henry Somerset, first duke of Beaufort. ... two daughters reached adulthood, ... Mary (1689/90–1713), who married John, third Baron Ashburnham
(Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.) - 1 2 Hawkesworth, John (1766). Letters Written by the Late Jonathan Swift, and Several of His Friends from the Year 1703 to 1740. Vol. 1. p. 136.
- ↑ Lockwood, Thomas (2023). The Life of Jonathan Swift. p. 402.
- ↑ Craik, Sir Henry (1894). The Life of Jonathan Swift. Vol. 1. p. 326.
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