The daughter of Granville Leveson-Gower, first Marquess of Stafford; in 1770 she married Frederick Howard, fifth Earl of Carlisle. Sidney Smith described her to Lady Holland as “thoroughly amiable.”

REFERENCES TO Margaret Caroline Howard, countess of Carlisle [née Leveson-Gower]:

Sydney Smith to Lady Holland, 1 February 1815 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)