Augusta Lavinia Priscilla Fitzmaurice, countess of Kerry [née Ponsonby] (1814-1904)
The daughter of John William Ponsonby, fourth Earl of Bessborough; in 1834 she married
William Thomas Petty-FitzMaurice, Earl of Kerry, and in 1845 the Hon. Charles Alexander
Gore. Sydney Smith wrote in 1835, “I am a convert to the beauty of Lady Kerry; her
smile is charming.”
The daughter of John William Ponsonby, fourth Earl of Bessborough; in 1834 she married
William Thomas Petty-FitzMaurice, Earl of Kerry, and in 1845 the Hon. Charles Alexander
Gore. Sydney Smith wrote in 1835, “I am a convert to the beauty of Lady Kerry; her
smile is charming.”