Sarah Villiers, Countess of Jersey Her husband, George Villiers, added the surname Child by royal licence. Lady Jersey married George Child Villiers, 5th Earl of Jersey, on 23 May 1804, in the drawing room of her house in Berkeley Square. Her husband's mother, Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey (also Lady Jersey), was one of the more notorious mistresses of King George IV when he was Prince of Wales. Her sister Maria married John Ponsonby, Viscount Duncannon, later the 4th Earl of Bessborough, a brother of Lady Caroline Lamb. Her own affairs, though conducted discreetly, were said to be numerous: Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston,
Mary Frances Dowdall are available. Mary Frances Dowdall Mary Frances Harriet Dowdall (née Borthwick, 1876–1939) was a London-born English writer of fiction and non-fiction. Her four novels are "astutely critical" on the subject of marriage. Mary Frances was the youngest of the five children of Cunninghame Borthwick, 19th Lord Borthwick (1813–1885) and his wife Harriet Alice (née Day, from Rochester, Kent, died 1917). She was privately educated. The family lived in Mayfair as her father worked as a stockbroker, but since 1870 they had also owned property in Scotland: Ravenstone Castle at Glasserton, Wigtownshire, now Dumfries and Galloway. In 1897 Mary Frances married