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CORK AND ORRERY, MARY, COUNTESS

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 160 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: COM-COR
CORK AND ORRERY, MARY, COUNTESS of (Mary Monckton) (1746-1840), was born on the 21st of May 1746, the daughter of the first Viscount Galway. From her early years she took a keen
interest
  in literature, and through her influence her mother's
house
  in London became a favourite meeting-place of literary celebrities. Dr Johnson was a frequent guest. According to Boswell, Miss Monckton's " vivacity enchanted the sage, and they used to talk together with all imaginable ease." Sheridan, Reynolds,
Burke
  and
Horace
  Walpole were among her constant visitors, and Mrs Siddons was her closest friend. In 1786 she married the seventh
earl
  of Cork and
Orrery
 , who died in 1798. As Lady Cork, her love of social " lions " became more pronounced than ever. Among her regular guests were Canning and Castlereagh, Byron, Sir Walter Scott, Lord John Russell, Sir Robert Peel, Theodore Hook and Sydney
Smith
 . She is supposed to have been the
original
  of Lady Bellair in Disraeli's Henrietta Temple, and Dickens is believed to have
drawn
  on her for some of the peculiarities of Mrs Leo Hunter in Pickwick. Lady Cork had a remarkable memory, and was a brilliant conversationalist. She died in London on the 3oth of May 184o. She was then ninety-four, but within a few days of her death had been either dining out or entertaining every night. There is a fine portrait of her by Reynolds.


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