Lady Louisa Conolly known from 1743 to 1758 as Lady Louisa Lennox, was the third of the four Lennox Sisters

Lennox Sisters

The Lennox sisters were the daughters of Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond in the Peerage of England and 2nd Duke of Lennox in the Peerage of Scotland, and Lady Sarah Cadogan , daughter of William Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan.-Ancestry:...

 immortalised in Stella Tillyard

Stella Tillyard

Stella Tillyard is a British author and historian born in 1957, best known for the best-selling Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832 which was made into a BBC Miniseries in 1999.-From academic to novelist:...

's book Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox and the BBC television series based on it.

The Lennox sisters were daughters of Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond

Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond

The 2nd Duke of Richmond has been described as early cricket's greatest patron. Although he had played cricket as a boy, his real involvement began after he succeeded to the dukedom...

, a legitimate descendant of an illegitimate son of King Charles II of England

Charles II of England

Charles II was monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland.Charles II's father, King Charles I, was executed at Whitehall on 30 January 1649, at the climax of the English Civil War...

. After the death of her parents, Lady Louisa was brought up by her sister Emily FitzGerald, Duchess of Leinster

Emily FitzGerald, Duchess of Leinster

Emily FitzGerald, Duchess of Leinster , known before 1747 as Lady Emily Lennox, from 1747 to 1761 as The Countess of Kildare and from 1761 to 1766 as The Marchioness of Kildare, was the second of the famous Lennox sisters, daughters of Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, and illegitimately...

, in Kildare and married Tom Conolly

Thomas Conolly (1738–1803)

Thomas Conolly was an Irish landowner.He was the son of William James Conolly of Castletown House, by his wife Lady Anne, daughter of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford...

, the grand-nephew of William Conolly

William Conolly

William Conolly , also known as Speaker Conolly, was an Irish politician, Commissioner of Revenue, lawyer and landowner.-Career:...

, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons

Irish House of Commons

The Irish House of Commons was the lower house of the Parliament of Ireland, that existed from 1297 until 1800. The upper house was the House of Lords...

, at the age of 16. They lived in the Palladian mansion Castletown House

Castletown House

Castletown House, Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland's is a Palladian country house built in 1722 for William Conolly, the Speaker of the Irish House of Commons. It formed the centrepiece of a estate...

 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

Lady Sarah Lennox

Lady Sarah Lennox was the most notorious of the famous Lennox Sisters, daughters of Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond.-Early life:...

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Ancestry

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)

Aristocrats (TV mini-series)

Aristocrats is a 1999 Television series, based on the biography by Stella Tillyard. The series consists of six episodes of 50 minutes each and was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC, starting on 22 June 1999...

. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0204082/maindetails

External links

• Castletown House