The daughter of Richard Caton of Maryland; she married, first, Robert Patterson, and second, in 1825, Richard Wellesley, first Marquess Wellesley. She was the sister-in-law of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte and Lady of the Bedchamber to the Queen Dowager Adelaide. Maria Edgeworth: “Her face beautiful, her manner rather too diplomatically studied.”

REFERENCES TO Marianne Wellesley [née Caton]:

Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte to Lady Morgan, 28 November [1825] in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863)

Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 9 September 1832 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 24 November 1832 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)