Lady Palk
(1826-1905)

Volume 1, page 170, sitting number 885.

Lady Maria Harriet Palk was the daughter of Sir Thomas Hesketh, 5th Baronet. In 1845 she married Sir Lawrence Palk (1818-1883), who was returned as MP for Devon South (1854-1868). He later became Baron Haldon (created 29 May 1880). The couple had four sons: Lawrence Hesketh (born in 1846), Robert Henry (born in 1848), Walter George (born abt. 1849) and Edward Arthur (born in 1854).

Baroness Haldon died on 18 December 1905, at the age of 79, at Whitchurch in Oxfordshire.