Henrietta Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough
Henrietta Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough, born Lady Henrietta Frances Spencer, 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 Spencer, was a great-grandson of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. Her sister was Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire.
1793 portrait by Angelica Kauffman
Henrietta Ponsonby with her sons Frederick and John by John Hoppner (1787)
Henrietta Frances Viscountess Duncannon, 1797
Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough
Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough, styled the Viscount Duncannon from 1758 to 1793, was an Anglo-Irish peer.
Lord Bessborough by Samuel William Reynolds.