Elizabeth Yorke, Countess of Hardwicke

Playwright

Elizabeth Yorke

Countess of Hardwicke
Native name| Elizabeth Scot Lindsay Yorke
Born| Elizabeth Scot Lindsay
1 October 1763
Died| 26 May 1858
Spouse(s)| Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke
Issue| Philip Yorke, Viscount Royston
Father| James Lindsay, 5th Earl of Balcarres
Mother| Anne Dalrymple

Elizabeth Yorke, Countess of Hardwicke (1 October 1763 - 26 May 1858), née Lindsay, was a British playwright and member of the aristocracy.

## Early life and education[edit]

Born 1 October 1763 to James Lindsay, 5th Earl of Balcarres and Anne Dalrymple, Hardwicke married Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke, on 24 July 1782. She became Countess of Hardwicke in 1796 when her husband succeeded his uncle. The couple had eight children, four boys and four girls. All four boys died young. Hardwicke regularly wrote and produced plays and performances in Wimpole Hall but she was very conservative in her views and saw this less as a profession of writing than an example of her duty as a mother and charitable lady. In 1831 she was involved in the Irish Distress Committee raising money to relieve the suffering of poor Irish people and with the permission of Queen Victoria published The court of Oberon which she had written in the 1790s. She also provided the illustrations for the book.[1][2][3][4]

She died on 26 May 1858 near Tyttenhanger Houseat age 94. She is buried in Chicheley Chapel in Wimpole commemorated on the monument she had erected to the memory of her husband and sons.[5][6]

## Bibliography[edit]

* The Court of Oberon, or The Three Wishes. A Drama in Three Acts, 1831[7]

## References and sources[edit]

1. ^ "Lady Elizabeth Scot Lindsay". Main Page. 28 December 2012. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
2. ^ Center, Yale; Maj, Lec. "The court of Oberon, or, The three wishes". collections.britishart.yale.edu. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
3. ^ Engel, L.; McGirr, E.M.; Brooks, H.E.M.; Bush-Bailey, G.; Francus, M.; Hawley, J.; Higa, J.; Jones, E.D.; Ledoux, E.M.; Lowerre, K. (2014). Stage Mothers: Women, Work, and the Theater, 1660–1830. Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850. Bucknell University Press. p. 202\. ISBN 978-1-61148-604-9. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
4. ^ Franceschina, J.C. (2014). Sisters of Gore: Seven Gothic Melodramas by British Women, 1790-1843. Taylor & Francis. p. 460\. ISBN 978-1-134-82089-4. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
5. ^ "Dictionary of Irish Biography". Retrieved 25 September 2019.
6. ^ Odell, Steve. "Monument Inscriptions from Monuments in Wimpole Parish Church". Wimpole Past. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
7. ^ "The court of Oberon : Hardwicke, Elizabeth Yorke, Countess of, 1763-1858". 23 October 2016. Retrieved 25 September 2019.

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(1691–1768)| | Anne Dalrymple
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| | Alexander Lindsay
(1752–1825)| | Elizabeth Dalrymple
(1759–1816)| | Elizabeth Scot Lindsay
(1763–1858)| | Philip Yorke
(1757–1834)| | | Charles Dalrymple
Lindsay
(1760–1846)| | | Catherine Eliza Coussmaker
(1760–1852)| | Robert Lindsay
(1754–1836)| | Elizabeth Dick
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Maria Margaret
Frances Pennington
(1783-1850)| | James Lindsay
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(1784–1808)| | | | Mary Catherine Gore
(1803–1885)| | George Hayward Lindsay
(1799–1886)| | | | | | James Lindsay
(1793–1855)| | Anne Trotter
(1803–1894)|
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Alexander William
Crawford Lindsay
(1812–1880)| | Margaret Lindsay
(1824–1909)| | James Alexander Lindsay
(1815–1874)| | Charles Hugh Lindsay
(1816–1889)| | Emilia Anne Browne
(1827–1873)| | Henry Gore Lindsay
(1830–1914)| | Ellen Sarah Morgan
(1837–1912)| | Robert Stayner Holford
(1808–1892)| | Mary Ann Lindsay
(1829–1901)| | Coutts Lindsay
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(1847–1913)| | | | Henry John
Brinsley Manners
(1852–1925)| | Marion Margaret
Violet Lindsay
(1856–1937)| | Henry Edith
Arthur Lindsay
(1866–1939)| | Norah Mary
Madeline Bourke
(1873–1948)| | | | | George Lindsay Holford
(1860–1926)| | Evelyn Holford
(1856–1943)| | Robert Henry Benson
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| | David Alexander Edward Lindsay
(1871-1940)| | Ronald Charles Lindsay
(1877-1945)| | Elizabeth Sherman Hoyt
(1885-1954)| | | | Henry Edzell
Morgan Lindsay
(1857–1935)| | Lionel Arthur Lindsay
(1861–1945)| | Walter Charles Lindsay
(1866–1929)| | George Mackintosh
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(1880–1956)| | | | | | | | |
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