Helen Selina Blackwood, countess of Gifford [née Sheridan]

(1807-1867)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Dufferin and Clandeboye, Helen Selina Blackwood, Baroness, 1807-1867 NRA: Blackwood, Helen Selina (1807-1867) nee Sheridan, author and poet, wife of Earl of Gifford DNB: Hay [née Sheridan], Helen Selina, countess of Gifford [other married name Helen Selina Blackwood, Lady Dufferin and Claneboye] (1807-1867), author and song writer LBT ID: LyGiffo1 VIAF ID: 100648429 LOC ID: n82164826	B/BAP: 1807 DIED: 1867-06-13
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English poet, the elder sister of Caroline Norton and granddaughter of Richard Brinsley Sheridan; in 1825 she married Price Blackwood (1794-1841), baron Dufferin; in 1862 she remarried, to George Hay, earl of Gifford.
REFERENCES TO Helen Selina Blackwood, countess of Gifford [née Sheridan]: Sydney Smith to Lady Dufferin, [August] 1843 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 2: ¶ 6 ¶ 7 John Gibson Lockhart to James Hope-Scott, 7 October 1852 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Found 1: ¶ 1 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Letters 1843 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter IV. 1838-41. Found 1: ¶ 48 Chapter V. 1842-44. Found 3: ¶ 39 ¶ 40 ¶ 43 Chapter VIII. 1850 Found 1: ¶ 13 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 16: 1832-36 Found 1: ¶ 2 Chapter 22: 1850-53 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch. II: 1805 Found 1: ¶ n1