My Friends and Acquaintance
Lady Blessington IV
Countess of Blessington to Peter George Patmore, [September? 1832]
“Seamore Place, Wednesday.
“Dear Sir,—A great mistake has crept into the notice of
the death of Captain Lock.* He is stated
to have been the grandson of the Duke of
Leinster. This was not the case. The mother of Captain
Lock was Miss Jennings,
daughter of the celebrated Dog Jennings—so-called from having brought to this
country the famous marble known as
* The singularly beautiful William Lock, of Norbury Park, who was drowned in the
Lake of Como, in sight of his newly-wedded bride. |
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the Dog of Alcibiades. The
brother of Captain Lock’s father, the late Charles Lock, Esq., married Miss Ogilvie, daughter of the Duchess Dowager of Leinster. You have no idea how
much importance people attach to such trifles as these, which after all are of
no consequence. I happen to have so very numerous an acquaintance that I am
au fait of genealogies—a
stupid, but sometimes useful knowledge.
“I shall be glad to see you when you have leisure, and
remain,
“Dear Sir, very sincerely yours,
“M. Blessington.”
James Fitzgerald, first duke of Leinster (1722-1773)
Irish magnate and politician, the son of Robert Fitzgerald, nineteenth earl of Kildare;
in 1747 he married Lady Emily Lennox, daughter of the second duke of Richmond.
Cecilia Margaret Lock [née Ogilvie] (1775-1824)
The daughter of Emily FitzGerald, duchess of Leinster and her second husband William
Ogilvie; in 1795 she married Charles Lock, consul-general in Naples (1798-1803).
Charles Lock (1770-1804)
The second son of William Lock of Norbury Park (1732-1810); he was British consul-general
in Naples during the Neapolitan Revolution of 1799.
Elizabeth Lock [née Jennings] (1781-1846)
The daughter of the art collector Henry Constantine (Dog) Jennings (1731-1819); in 1800
she married the painter and connoisseur William Lock.
William Lock (1804-1832)
Of Norbury Park, son of the painter of the same name (1867-47), a handsome captain in the
Life Guards, he was also a painter and published
Illustrations of the
Works of Lord Byron (1831) before drowning in Lake Como.
