An English widow of independent means who offered to care for Allegra Byron in Venice. The Vavasours were a Yorkshire family; she may be Ursula, widow of Sir Walter Vavasour (d. 1802).

REFERENCES TO Mrs. Vavassour:

Lord Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 2 July 1819 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)