Harriet Osborne, Baroness Godolphin was a British noblewoman. An illegitimate child, her mother was the society figure Henrietta Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough, who became pregnant by her longtime
Harriet's mother, the Countess of Bessborough, never revealed her true identity to her daughter.
Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville, styled Lord Granville Leveson-Gower from 1786 to 1815 and The Viscount Granville from 1815 to 1833, was a British Whig statesman and diplomat from the Leve
Portrait by Thomas Lawrence, 1804–1809
Young Granville (center) with his family (c. 1776 portrait by George Romney)
Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville with his wife Harriet and their children. Painting by Thomas Phillips, c.1815