Elizabeth Vassall
1771–1845 (age 74)
Biography
Born in 1771 into the Vassall family, Elizabeth became renowned for the elegance with which she hosted salons that drew artists, writers, and reformers to Holland House, keeping important conversations about liberty and culture at the centre of polite society.
As wife and later widow of Lord Holland, she devoted energy to philanthropic causes, helped to alleviate hardships of the less fortunate, and remained a steadfast patron of the arts until her death in 1845, after which she was laid to rest beside her husband in the churchyard of St Michael, Millbrook.