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| NAME AUTHORITIES: DNB: Rawdon [née Hastings], Elizabeth, suo jure Baroness Botreaux, suo jure Baroness Hungerford, suo jure Baroness Moleyns, suo jure Baroness Hastings, and countess of Moira (1731-1808), literary patron and antiquary LBT ID: LyMoira1c | B/BAP: 1731-03-23 DIED: 1808-04-11 |
| SOURCES: DNB; thePeerage.com | |
The daughter of the ninth earl of Huntingdon and his third wife, the evangelical Selina
Hastings; in 1752 she married Sir John Rawdon, afterwards earl of Moira; she patronized
Thomas Percy and his Irish literary circle. | |
REFERENCES TO Elizabeth Rawdon, countess of Moira [née Hastings]: Sydney Owenson to Robert Owenson, [April? 1800] in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second
Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) William Godwin to James Marshal, 2 August 1800 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1:
¶ 3 Sydney Owenson to Robert Owenson, [1801?] in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second
Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1:
¶ 4 Joseph Cooper Walker to Sydney Owenson, 18 February 1807 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second
Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1:
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