Frederick Ponsonby third Earl of Bessborough

On leaving the St Quintins' school FAR became a governess. Her employers included, for several years, Lord Bessborough (one of whose children was the future Lady Caroline Lamb ).

At the same time that LCL had related to Sydney Morgan the episode of the page and the fireworks, she had said that she was going to be punished eventually for her cumulative misdeeds by...

Caroline Ponsonby (later LCL ) was only three when the scandal erupted over her mother 's affair with the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan ; a couple of months later Caroline's father launched divorce proceedings.

Caroline's father, Frederick Ponsonby, later third Earl of Bessborough , outlived his daughter by more than twenty years. He had estates in Kilkenny in Ireland.

It is dedicated to Sir John Aubrey of Dorton House, Buckinghamshire, a Tory baronet and member of parliament, with praise for his integrity of principle and spirit of patriotism and for his private or domestic...