Whig hostess, the daughter of Thomas Henry Liddell, first baron Ravensworth; in 1818 she married Constantine Phipps, marquess of Normanby. She was the original of Berengaria, Lady Montfort, in Disraeli's novel Endymion.

REFERENCES TO Mary Phipps, marchioness of Normanby [née Liddell]:

Sydney Smith to Lady Holland, [October 1825] 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)

Augustus Granville Stapleton to William Jerdan, 7 May 1827 in The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53)

Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 4 December 1837 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)