Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was an English aristocrat, medical pioneer, writer, and poet. Born in 1689, Lady Mary spent her early life in England. In 1712, Lady Mary married Edward Wortley Montagu, who later served as the British ambassador to the Sublime Porte. Lady Mary joined her husband on the Ottoman excursion, where she was to spend the next two years of her life. During her time there, Lady Mary wrote extensively on her experience as a woman in Ottoman Constantinople. After her return to England, Lady Mary devoted her attention to the upbringing of her family before dying of cancer in 1762.
A painting of Mary Wortley Montagu by Jonathan Richardson the Younger
Mary Wortley Montagu with her son Edward, by Jean-Baptiste van Mour
Mary Wortley Montagu, by Charles Jervas, after 1716
Memorial to the Rt. Hon. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu erected in Lichfield Cathedral by Henrietta Inge
Edward Wortley Montagu (diplomat)
Edward Wortley Montagu was an English coal-owner and politician. He was British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, husband of the writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and father of the writer and traveller Edward Wortley Montagu.
Portrait of Edward Wortley Montagu from 1730
Wortley Hall, view from the south, 2009 photograph showing in the pediment the arms of Baron Wharncliffe added after 1826