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Isabella Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of Hertford

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Isabella continued to spend the season in London, but otherwise lived at Temple Newsam. Here she busied herself with charitable works, being the patron or member of many events and societies, and was noted for her benevolence to the poor as well as her generosity to the servants at Temple Newsam who
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Somebody asked Lady Hertford if she had been aware of the King's admiration for Lady Conyngham, and whether he had ever talked to her about Lady C. She replied that 'intimately as she had known the King, and openly as he had always talked to her upon every subject, he had never ventured to speak to
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At first, Isabella rejected George's advances, causing him to become depressed. He made a visit to Isabella's mother at Temple Newsam in 1806 whilst attending Doncaster races as an excuse to see Isabella. George became obsessed with Isabella and became ill when parted from her so that the Hertfords
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attended by the Prince, members of the royal family and visiting nobles, including for victory celebrations in 1814. Isabella's dresses were reported in the press including a Greek-style ostrich feather head-dress worn in 1813 styled on the Prince's crest.
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described her as 'Her intellectual character, and high attainments, formed the least part of her excellencies; however enlightened her mind, her heart was warmer still. To the poor and the distressed her munificence was all but unbounded'.
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travelled to London to see him and George was miraculously cured. In 1807, Isabella, now almost fifty, began a relationship with George who was then in his mid-forties. As a result, the Prince was a regular guest at
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Tall, handsome, and elegant, she caught the attention of the Prince of Wales most likely at a ball or concert at Manchester House, the London home of the Hertfords. George was also friends with Isabella's son,
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held an annual ball and supper in the house. Lady Hertford died in 1834 after catching a cold on her way from Temple Newsam to London by carriage. Her obituary in
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Isabella was co-heiress to Temple Newsam along with her four sisters, and owned properties in Worcestershire, Norfolk, Ireland and London.
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herself, she was influential in turning the Prince toward the Tories and away from the
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The Marchioness's predecessor as the Prince Regent's mistress had been
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On the death of her mother in 1807, she inherited Temple Newsam in
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A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV
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The History of the Life and Reign of George IV.: In 3 Volumes
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English landowner, courtier, and royal mistress (1759–1834)
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Francis Ingram-Seymour-Conway, 2nd Marquess of Hertford
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Isabella Anne Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of Hertford
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Isabella Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of Hertford

John Hoppner
courtier
King George IV
Prince of Wales
Temple Newsam
Charles Ingram, 9th Viscount of Irvine
Frances Gibson Shepheard Ingram
Francis Ingram-Seymour-Conway, 2nd Marquess of Hertford

Joshua Reynolds
Lord Yarmouth
Master of the Horse
Knight of the Garter
Hertford House
London
Ragley Hall
Warwickshire
Tory
Whigs
George Cruikshank
Maria Fitzherbert
George Canning
West Yorkshire
Hertford House
prince regent
Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness Conyngham
Greville’s
English royal mistress

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