Elizabeth Stuart-Wortley, Baroness Wharncliffe
Biography. Lady Caroline Elizabeth Mary Crichton was the daughter of John Crichton, 1st Earl Erne by his second wife, the former Lady Mary Caroline Hervey, daughter of Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol and elder sister of the notorious Lady Elizabeth Foster. She married James Stuart-Wortley, 1st Baron Wharncliffe and had four children; There are four portraits of her as a child in the National Trust Collection. Lord Wharncliffe died in December 1845, aged 69, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son, John, whose son Edward, 3rd Baron was created Earl  of Wharncliffe in 1876. Elizabeth, Dowager Baroness Wharncliffe died in April 1856. Personal life. Lady Wharncliffe was the daughter of John Creighton, 1st Earl Erne and the granddaughter of Lord Stuart of Wortley, the first Conservative to be elected as a Member of Parliament for Sheffield. She married Lord Wharncliffe on 30 March 1799. They had four children: Works. 55 works, including one landscape painting and a series of sketches of models, by Lady Wharncliffe can be found, in the Tate Collection and Archive. Bibliography. The book 'The first Lady Wharncliffe and her family (1779-1856); v.1 / by her grandchildren  Caroline Grosvenor and the late Charles Beilby, Lord Stuart of Wortley. 1927' is in the Royal Collection Trust. Further reading. Lady Wharncliffe's letters are kept by the National Archives.