The daughter of Michael Ambrose, a Dublin brewer, she attracted the attentions of Lord Chesterfield while he was lord-lieutenant of Ireland. She married in 1750 Sir Roger Palmer, and in her later years knew Thomas Moore.

REFERENCES TO Lady Eleanor Palmer [née Ambrose]:

Sydney Owenson to Robert Owenson, [1800?] in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863)