Daughter of Byron's solicitor, John Hanson, the second wife of John Charles Wallop (1767-1853), third earl of Portsmouth; the marriage, 7 March 1814, was annulled in 1828 after a long legal contest. Her obituary in GM gives her name as “Harriet Bridges.”

REFERENCES TO Mary Anne Hanson:

Augusta Leigh to Francis Hodgson, 15 December 1814 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878)

Lord Byron to Lady Hardy, 28 March 1823 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)