The daughter of Field Marshal Stapleton Stapleton-Cotton, first Viscount Combermere; in 1837 she married Sir Arthur Wills Blundell Sandys Trumbull Windsor Hill, fourth Marquess of Downshire.

REFERENCES TO Caroline Frances Hill, marchioness of Downshire [née Stapleton-Cotton]:

Lord Carlisle to Lady Morgan, 31 January 1856 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863)