The daughter of the hon. Frederick Hamilton; in 1777 she married John Stratford, third earl of Aldborough and was a society figure into her old age.

REFERENCES TO Elizabeth Stratford, countess of Aldborough [née Hamilton]:

Countess of Charleville to Sydney Owenson, 2 November 1808 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863)

Lady Morgan to an anonymous correspondent, 1837 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863)

Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 21 April 1837 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Lady Louisa Molyneux to Thomas Creevey, 26 December 1837 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)