The daughter of Archibald Douglas and Mary Crosbie; she married first the Hon. Joseph Leeson (d. 1811) and in 1811 Valentine Browne Lawless, second baron Cloncurry.

REFERENCES TO Emily Lawless [née Douglas]:

Lady Caroline Lamb to Lady Morgan, 8 August 1823 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863)

Lady Caroline Lamb to Lady Morgan, September 1823 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863)

Lady Caroline Lamb to Lady Morgan, October 1823 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863)