The daughter of John William Ponsonby, fourth Earl of Bessborough; in 1834 she married William Thomas Petty-FitzMaurice, Earl of Kerry, and in 1845 the Hon. Charles Alexander Gore. Sydney Smith wrote in 1835, “I am a convert to the beauty of Lady Kerry; her smile is charming.”

REFERENCES TO Augusta Lavinia Priscilla Fitzmaurice, countess of Kerry [née Ponsonby]:

Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 1 June 1833 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Sydney Smith to Lady Grey, 20 October 1835 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)

Thomas Moore to Sydney Smith, 22 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)