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LADY LOUISA TOLLEMACHE, AFTERWARDS LADY
LOUISA MANNERS, COUNTESS OF DYSART IN
HER OWN RIGHT.
1H E seven sons and the one grandson of the third Earl of Dysart
and Grace Carteret, Countess of Dysart, having all died, the
Tollemache family was in 1821 extinct in the male line.
Lord and Lady Dysart had also six daughters, and of these two
survived: Lady Louisa, born in 1745, and Lady Jane, born in 1750.
Lady Louisa and Lady Jane Tollemache were both educated at
Mrs. Holt’s school in South Audley Street, which was considered the
best ladies’ school in London at that time. Mrs. Delany writes to her
sister on the 1 ith of December, 1755, “ Did I tell you that Lady Cowper1
has at last prevailed on Lord Dysart to let Lady Louisa Tollemache go
to Mrs. Holt’s school near Grosvenor Square, and at breaking-up times
she has offered to take care of her?” On the 24th of January, 1756,
Mrs. Delany wrote: “ I was last Wednesday at Lady Cowper’s concert.
Lady Louisa Tollemache was there, and is extremely improved in her
behaviour, was mighty quiet and composed, and made me melancholy
when I considered what a loss she had had.” Mrs. Delany here refers
to the death of Lady Dysart six months before, when her daughter Lady
Louisa was only ten years old. In another letter to Mrs. Dewes, the
sister of Mrs. Delany, she says, “ Lady Cowper wonders you will not put
your daughter for two years to Mrs. Holt, and that she would be with
her every Sunday and holyday that she was in town, the same as Lady
Louisa Tollemache. She commends the school extremely: they take but
twenty scholars, and the mistress is a gentlewoman and takes great care
of them.”2
1 Georgiana Caroline, Countess Cowper, sister 2 Life of Mrs. Delany, ngX. iii., pp. 383, 4^2>
of Grace, Countess of Dysart, and aunt of Lady 412.
Louisa Tollemache.
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LOUISA MANNERS, COUNTESS OF DYSART IN
HER OWN RIGHT.
1H E seven sons and the one grandson of the third Earl of Dysart
and Grace Carteret, Countess of Dysart, having all died, the
Tollemache family was in 1821 extinct in the male line.
Lord and Lady Dysart had also six daughters, and of these two
survived: Lady Louisa, born in 1745, and Lady Jane, born in 1750.
Lady Louisa and Lady Jane Tollemache were both educated at
Mrs. Holt’s school in South Audley Street, which was considered the
best ladies’ school in London at that time. Mrs. Delany writes to her
sister on the 1 ith of December, 1755, “ Did I tell you that Lady Cowper1
has at last prevailed on Lord Dysart to let Lady Louisa Tollemache go
to Mrs. Holt’s school near Grosvenor Square, and at breaking-up times
she has offered to take care of her?” On the 24th of January, 1756,
Mrs. Delany wrote: “ I was last Wednesday at Lady Cowper’s concert.
Lady Louisa Tollemache was there, and is extremely improved in her
behaviour, was mighty quiet and composed, and made me melancholy
when I considered what a loss she had had.” Mrs. Delany here refers
to the death of Lady Dysart six months before, when her daughter Lady
Louisa was only ten years old. In another letter to Mrs. Dewes, the
sister of Mrs. Delany, she says, “ Lady Cowper wonders you will not put
your daughter for two years to Mrs. Holt, and that she would be with
her every Sunday and holyday that she was in town, the same as Lady
Louisa Tollemache. She commends the school extremely: they take but
twenty scholars, and the mistress is a gentlewoman and takes great care
of them.”2
1 Georgiana Caroline, Countess Cowper, sister 2 Life of Mrs. Delany, ngX. iii., pp. 383, 4^2>
of Grace, Countess of Dysart, and aunt of Lady 412.
Louisa Tollemache.
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