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 Isom Mary Frances Isom Mary Frances Isom (February 27, 1865 in Nashville, Tennessee – April 15, 1920 in Portland, Oregon) was a librarian, and one of the founders of the Oregon Library Association, the Pacific Northwest Library Association and the Oregon State Library Commission. She was instrumental in the formerly private Portland Library Association being opened to the public as what is now the Central Library in Portland. Mary Isom was born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1865 to Dr. John Franklin Isom and Frances A. Isom. Her family was originally from Cleveland, and returned there after the Civil War. She went