NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Darcy de Knayth, Amelia D'Arcy, Baroness, 1754-1784 LBT ID: LyDarcy VIAF ID: 73687532 LOC ID: no2009002159 | B/BAP: 1754 DIED: 1784 |
SOURCES: DNB ["Francis Osborne"]; Virtual International Authority File; www.thepeerage.com; LOC Name Authority File | |
Daughter and heir of Robert D'Arcy, fourth earl of Holdernesse; in 1773 she married
Francis Osborne, marquess of Carmarthen, who divorced her following her affair with Captain
John Byron whom she married in 1779. She was the mother of Augusta Byron, the poet's
half-sister. | |