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Elizabeth Butler, Marchioness of Ormonde (née Lady Elizabeth Harriet Grosvenor; 11 October 1856 – 25 March 1928), was a British aristocrat who was the eldest daughter of Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster and Lady Constance Gertrude Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (daughter of George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland).
She became Marchioness of Ormond on her husband's promotion on 30 August 1642. In that same year she was allowed to rejoin her husband in Dublin. Their last two children, John and Mary, were born in Dublin while they stayed there together.
Elizabeth Butler, née Preston, Baroness Dingwall, and countess, marchioness, then duchess of Ormonde (1615–84), is the author of the largest body of extant correspondence of any woman from seventeenth-century Ireland, and was arguably the most powerful and well-connected Irish woman of her time.
- Naomi McAreavey
- 2021
6 gen 2023 · © National Portrait Gallery, London. 20 June 1649, The marchioness of Ormonde – probably writing from Caen – to her friend Sir Edward Nicholas. This letter reveals the marchioness of Ormonde’s involvement in a Royalist intelligence network based in Caen, Normandy, where she lived in exile with her children and other Irish Royalists. Click Here.
However, it more closely resembles Elizabeth Harriet Grosvenor, née Leveson-Gower (1857 – 1928), who in 1876 married James Butler, 3rd Marquess of Ormonde. A photographic miniature of Elizabeth, Marchioness of Ormonde, at the same age, confirming this identity, is at Antony, Cornwall (National Trust: no. ANT38).
Elizabeth Butler, Marchioness of Ormonde ( née Lady Elizabeth Harriet Grosvenor; 11 October 1856 – 25 March 1928), was a British aristocrat who was the eldest daughter of Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster and Lady Constance Gertrude Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (daughter of George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland ).
Elizabeth Harriet Grosvenor, Marchioness of Ormonde (1857-1928) c. 1885 - c. 1895 Description Photograph of Elizabeth Harriet Grosvenor, Marchioness of Ormonde: head and shoulders portrait, facing the viewer but looking to her right, wearing a fur-lined coat over a dress, with peal necklace.
