The Irish actress who in 1815 married the banker Thomas Coutts, a man twice her age, and then in 1826, William Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk, ninth duke of St Albans, a man half her age.

REFERENCES TO Harriot Beauclerk, duchess of St. Albans [née Mellon]:

Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 19 January 1821 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 29 January 1821 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Charles Lamb to Benjamin Robert Haydon, 9 October 1822 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 15 June 1827 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 4 February 1831 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Earl of Essex to Thomas Creevey, 7 August 1837 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

John Gibson Lockhart to Henry Hart Milman, 22 September 1840 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897)