Margaret Moore, countess of Mountcashell [née King] [Mrs. Mason]

(1773-1835)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Moore, Margaret King, 1772-1835 LBT ID: LyMount2 VIAF ID: 71641726 LOC ID: nr92008936	B/BAP: 1773 DIED: 1835-01-29
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The daughter of the second Earl of Kingston who employed Mary Wollstonecraft as her governess; in 1791 she married Stephen Moore, second Earl Mountcashell (d. 1822); she eloped with George William Tighe whom she married after the death of her husband. She was the “Mrs. Mason” of the Byron-Shelley circle at Pisa.
CORRESPONDENCE OF Margaret Moore, countess of Mountcashell [née King] [Mrs. Mason]: Lady Mountcashel to William Godwin, 21 February 1802 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876)