Henrietta Frances Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough, was the wife of Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough; the couple were the parents of Lady Caroline Lamb. Her father, John Spencer, 1st Earl
Portrait by Angelica Kauffman, 1793
Lady Georgiana Spencer, Henrietta Spencer and George, Viscount Althorp, by Angelica Kauffman, c. 1766
Henrietta Ponsonby with her sons Frederick and John, by John Hoppner (1787)
Margaret Georgiana Spencer, Countess Spencer, was an English philanthropist. She was born at St James's Palace as the daughter of a diplomat and a maid of honour to Caroline of Ansbach. In 1754, she m
Lady Spencer painted by Thomas Gainsborough.
The Earl Spencer by Thomas Gainsborough
Lady Spencer's three surviving children, Georgiana, George, and Henrietta