Maria Coventry, Countess of Coventry was an Irish beauty and London society hostess during the reign of King George II. She died at a young age due to lead poisoning from toxins in her beauty regimen.
The Countess of Coventry by Francis Cotes
The Countess of Coventry
Portrait of a pensive woman on a sofa, a 1749 painting of Mary Gunning in Turkish costume by Jean-Étienne Liotard
Elizabeth Campbell, Duchess of Argyll, 1st Baroness Hamilton of Hameldon, earlier Elizabeth Hamilton, Duchess of Hamilton, née Gunning, was a celebrated Anglo-Irish beauty, lady-in-waiting to Queen Ch
Maria Coventry, Countess of Coventry
…County Roscommon, Ireland, and his wife Hon. Bridget Bourke, daughter of Theobald Bourke, 6th Viscount Mayo (1681–1741). Maria's younger siblings were Elizabeth, Catherine (married Robert Travis, died 1773), Sophia, Lizzie and John (a general in the army). In late 1740 or early 1741, the Gunning family returned…
Portrait by Gavin Hamilton
James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton
John Campbell, Duke of Argyll