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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).
6 de ene. de 2023 · Elizabeth Butler, née Preston (1615–84), had inherited, through her mother (daughter and heir to the 10th Earl of Ormonde), more than half of the Ormonde estate, including Kilkenny Castle. Her marriage to her second cousin, James Butler, Viscount Thurles, reunited the estate and title when he became 12th Earl.
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.
Elizabeth Butler, Marchioness of Ormonde, was a British aristocrat who was the eldest daughter of Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster and Lady Constance Gertrude Sutherland-Leveson-Gower. In 1876 she married James Butler, 3rd Marquess of Ormonde and became the Marchioness of Ormonde until her husband's death in 1919.
9 de jun. de 2021 · The marquess and marchioness of Ormonde were the ultimate power couple of seventeenth-century Ireland. But while James Butler (1610–88) has long been central to Irish historiography, his wife Elizabeth Butler, née Preston (1615–84) has been little more than a footnote in history.
A photographic miniature of Elizabeth, Marchioness of Ormonde, at the same age, confirming this identity, is at Antony, Cornwall (National Trust: no. ANT38). The source for the present miniature, however, must be the miniature of the Marchioness of Ormonde, painted by Edward Tayler in the year of her marriage and exhibited RA 1876 (no. 1241).
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. Signed by the sitter as Lilah Ormonde.
