Hester Maria Elphinstone, viscountess Keith [née Thrale] [Queeney]

(1764-1857)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Elphinstone, Hester Maria, Viscountess Keith, 1762-1857 DNB: Elphinstone [née Thrale], Hester Maria, Viscountess Keith (1764-1857), protégée of Samuel Johnson LBT ID: LyKeith1 VIAF ID: 9191287 LOC ID: n2001039062	B/BAP: 1764-09-17 DIED: 1857-03-31
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The eldest child of Hester Thrale, and Samuel Johnson's favorite; after declining a proposal from Samuel Rogers, in 1808 she married Admiral George Keith Elphinstone, Baron Keith (1746-1823).
REFERENCES TO Hester Maria Elphinstone, viscountess Keith [née Thrale] [Queeney]: Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1814 Found 2: ¶ 3 ¶ 4 John Hamilton Gray to Lady Morgan, 19 June 1856 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 3 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter VI. Found 1: ¶ 8 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XXXVII