Lady Louisa Conolly

Lady Louisa Conolly

Lady Louisa Conolly (1743-1821), known from 1743 to 1758 as Lady Louisa Lennox, was the third of the four Lennox sisters immortalised in Stella Tillyard's book "Aristocrats" and the BBC television series based on it.

The Lennox sisters were daughters of Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, a legitimate descendant of an illegitimate son of King Charles II of England. After the death of her parents, Lady Louisa was brought up by her sister Emily FitzGerald, Duchess of Leinster, in Kildare and married Tom Conolly, the grand-nephew of William Conolly, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons, at the age of 16. They lived in the Palladian mansion Castletown House in County Kildare, the decoration of which she directed throughout the 1760s and 1770s, while her husband raised and rode his racehorses. Unhappily childless, Lady Louisa virtually adopted her niece Emily Napier, the daughter of her sister Sarah Lennox.

Ancestry

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1= 1. Lady Louisa Conolly
2= 2. Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond
3= 3. Sarah Cadogan
4= 4. Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond
5= 5. Anne Brudenell
6= 6. William Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan
7= 7. Margaret Cecilia Munter
8= 8. Charles II of England
9= 9. Louise Renée de Penancoët de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth
10= 10. Francis Brudenell, Lord Brudenell
11= 11. Frances Savile
12= 12. Henry Cadogan
13= 13. Bridget Waller
14= 14. Jan Munter
15= 15. Margaretha Trip
16= 16. Charles I of England
17= 17. Henrietta Maria of France
18= 18. Guillaume de Penancoët, Seigneur de Kérouaille
19= 19. Marie de Ploeuc de Timeur
20= 20. Robert Brudenell, 2nd Earl of Cardigan
21= 21. Anne Savage
22= 22. Thomas Savile, 1st Earl of Sussex
23= 23. Anne Villiers
24= 24. William Cadogan
25= 25. Elizabeth Roberts
26= 26. Hardress Waller
27= 27. Mary (Elizabeth) Dowdall
28= 28. Joan Munter
29= 29. Margaretha Geelvinck
30= 30. Hendrick Trip
31= 31. Cecilia Godin

References

Tillyard, Stella. "Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832." London: Chatto & Windus, 1994.

Trivia

In 1999, a 6-part miniseries based on the lives of Louisa Lennox and her sisters aired in the U.K. It was called Aristocrats (TV mini-series). [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0204082/maindetails]


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