Henrietta Frances Ponsonby, countess of Bessborough [née Spencer]

(1761-1821)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Bessborough, Henrietta Frances Spencer Ponsonby, Countess of, 1761-1821 DNB: Ponsonby [née Spencer], Henrietta Frances [Harriet], countess of Bessborough (1761-1821), noblewoman LBT ID: LyBessb3 VIAF ID: 33211085 LOC ID: no94035611	B/BAP: 1761-06-16 DIED: 1821-11-11
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The younger sister of the Duchess of Devonshire; in 1780 she married Frederick Ponsonby, third earl of Bessborough; Lady Caroline Lamb was their daughter.
CORRESPONDENCE OF Henrietta Frances Ponsonby, countess of Bessborough [née Spencer]: Lady Bessborough to Lady Melbourne, [September? 1812] in In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921)