词条 | Lady Harriet Mary Montagu |
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| name = Harriet Ashburton | image = Harriet Mary Montegu 1804 to 1857.JPG | image_size = | caption = by Francis Holl | birth_name = | birth_date = 14 May 1805 | birth_place = | death_date = 4 May 1857 | death_place = Paris | death_cause = | residence = | other_names = | known_for = Literary hostess | education = | religion = | spouse = William Bingham Baring, 2nd Baron Ashburton | partner = | children = | parents = | website = | footnotes = | nationality = British }} Harriet Mary Baring, Baroness Ashburton (née Lady Harriet Montagu) (14 May 1805 – 4 May 1857) was a socialite and hostess. She was born in 1805 to George Montagu, 6th Earl of Sandwich and Louisa Montagu, Countess of Sandwich. She married William Bingham Baring, 2nd Baron Ashburton on 12 April 1823. He had graduated from Oriel College, Oxford in 1823 and he was an M.P. by 1826. He was the Member of Parliament for Thetford, Callington, Winchester, North Staffordshire and finally Thetford for a second time[1] before he became a peer in 1848. He served in Sir Robert Peel's government despite his shyness.[1] She was far from shy and more witty and direct and the welcome that she made at her various houses attracted leading men of her time. William Thackeray, John Stuart Mill and especially Thomas Carlyle enjoyed her company. She and the Earl of Sandwich were notably wealthy and they had houses in Surrey, Bath House, Piccadilly, another near Portsmouth and a place near Winchester. The Earl was involved in government, he was a fellow of the Royal Society, a trustee of the National Gallery[3] and in 1860 he became President of the Royal Geographical Society.[2] She was the hostess for, and a source of friction between, Thomas Carlyle and his wife, Jane Welsh Carlyle. Jane Carlyle was jealous of the attention that her husband gave to his hostess, but she was also one of her admirers.[3] As a literary hostess, she had been described as chinless, large, and with an unusual nose, but both the Carlyles recognised her intelligence. Jane noted that despite her appearance she was "almost beautiful—simply through the intelligence and cordiality of her expression."[2] She died in Paris on 4 May 1857 having had only one child who died as an infant. Her husband married Louisa Caroline Stewart-Mackenzie at Bath House in Piccadilly on 17 November 1858.[4] References{{Commons category|Harriet Mary Montagu}}1. ^{{cite DNB |wstitle=Baring, William Bingham}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Montagu, Harriet}}2. ^1 2 K. D. Reynolds, ‘Baring , Harriet Mary, Lady Ashburton (1805–1857)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 13 Jan 2015 3. ^1 {{cite book|last1=Cumming|first1=ed. by Mark|title=The Carlyle encyclopedia|date=2004|publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press|location=Madison [u.a.]|isbn=0838637922|page=21}} 4. ^Virginia Surtees, ‘Baring , Louisa Caroline, Lady Ashburton (1827–1903)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 13 Jan 2015 5 : 1805 births|1857 deaths|British socialites|Montagu family|British baronesses |
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