The Salusbury family was an Anglo-Welsh family notable for their social prominence, wealth, literary contributions and philanthropy. They were patrons of the arts and were featured in William Shakespe
The arms and crest of the Salusbury family at Lleweni
Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi was a Welsh writer and socialite whose diaries, letters and other works made her an important source of information on Samuel Johnson and 18th-century British life. A member
Salusbury family
…who came over with William the Conqueror during the Norman Conquest, when he states that the toponymic surname Salzburg was anglicised into Salusbury. Hester Lynch Piozzi (1740–1821) recalls visiting a Benedictine convent in Salzburg where she was shown records of a "young Prince Adam" who came over with William the…
Sir Joshua Reynolds, Portrait of Hester Thrale and her daughter Hester (c. 1777), Beaverbrook Art Gallery, New Brunswick, Canada