Lady Morgan’s Memoirs
Lady Jane Butler to Lady Olivia Clarke, 12 January 1812
Baron’s Court,
January, 1812.
My dear Lady Clarke,
The vice-regal party are here, and are all running after
the grouse, at this moment. The Duke is to
make Dr. Morgan (of the Linnean Society,
and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London) a Knight. The ceremony is to take place in a few hours. The coquette
has behaved very well, for these ten days past; she really seems now attached
to him. She is afraid Lady Asgill has
quizzed Sir Charles Morgan to you;
for a reason Miss Owenson has, she thinks
every body would rather have the mate. He is in as great
a frenzy as ever about her. He left me, last night most suddenly, in the midst
of an Italian duett, before the whole Court, to go and
listen to what his love said to Mr. Parkhurst. I was
rather offended at being so publicly disgraced and deserted, considering that
he thinks me the first of women, and that I have great
capabilities. However, I must tell you, Glorvina
is minding her P. P. P.’s and Q. Q. Q’s.
Yours, sincerely,
Lady Jemima Sophia Asgill [née Ogle] (1770-1819)
The daughter of Admiral Sir Chaloner Ogle; in 1790 she married Sir Charles Asgill who was
posted to Ireland during the Rebelion of 1798. She is said to be the model for the
flirtatious Lady Olivia in Maria Edgeworth's
Leonora.
Charles Lennox, fourth duke of Richmond (1764-1819)
He was a military officer who fought at Waterloo; after succeeding his uncle in the title
in 1806 he was lord-lieutenant of Ireland (1807-13) and governor-general of Canada
(1818).
Sir Thomas Charles Morgan (1780-1843)
English physician and philosophical essayist who married the novelist Sydney Owenson in
1812; he was the author of
Sketches of the Philosophy of Morals
(1822). He corresponded with Cyrus Redding.
Charles Parkhurst (1812 fl.)
Assistant gentleman usher to the Duke of Richmond when he was Lord Lieutenant; one of
Sydney Owenson's admirers.
Lady Jane Manners- Sutton [née Butler] (1779-1846)
The daughter of James Butler, ninth Baron Cahir; in 1815 she married Thomas Manners
Sutton at Baron's Court, the residence of the Marquis of Abercorn in County Tyrone.
