Elizabeth Rawdon, Countess of Moira in the Peerage of Ireland was a political hostess, literary patron and antiquarian. She was born at Donington Park, Leicestershire, England and died at Moira, Count
Elizabeth Hastings, by Joshua Reynolds
General Francis Edward Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings, styled The Honourable Francis Rawdon from birth until 1762, Lord Rawdon between 1762 and 1783, The Lord Rawdon from 1783 to 1793 and T
Elizabeth Rawdon, Countess of Moira
…am, from nature, a firm aristocrat ... I am not a convertible, but a rational being. (Tone considered himself a friend of the family. Lady Moira's son Francis was godfather to Tone's fourth child, named in his honour Francis Rawdon Tone). In the years before the French Revolution gave new currency to ideas…
Portrait of Lord Moira by Sir Joshua Reynolds, c. 1790
The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill; Rawdon is shown in the background waving the 5th Foot's regimental colour
Portrait of Lord Rawdon by Thomas Gainsborough, 1784
Donington Hall