Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne was a notable member of the British aristocracy during the Georgian period in the 18th century.
Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne
Andrew Robinson Stoney
Sir George Bowes was an English coal proprietor and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons for 33 years from 1727 to 1760.
Mary Bowes, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne
…the early pioneers of women's rights in relation to divorce. Mary was born in Upper Brook Street in Mayfair, London, the daughter and heiress of Sir George Bowes, a wealthy businessman; and his second wife, Mary Gilbert of St Paul's Walden. She was named Mary Eleanor in homage to both her own mother and her…
The shell of Gibside Hall in County Durham
Gibside Chapel