Lady Henrietta Riddell
(1827-1867)
8 August 1861

Volume 4, page 332, sitting number 5400.

Born Lady Henrietta Maria Plunkett, she was the second daughter of the Earl of Fingal, of Killeen Castle, County Meath, Ireland. On 3 May 1855 she married Thomas William Charles Riddell, born 14 October 1828, the eldest son of Thomas Riddell, Esq., of Felton Park and Swinburne Castle, Northumberland. Her husband died in Barcelona on 24 May 1867. They had one child, a daughter, Mary Louisa Catherine Riddell, later Mrs Edmund Stonor.

Lady Riddell died at Reading in Berkshire on 11 February 1909. She left effects valued at £4574.

[The portrait on the left is from an album compiled by Anna Maria Louise Barnewall, daughter of Lord Trimleston. The portrait on the right is from an album compiled by her mother, Lady Trimleston, née Margaret Randalina Roche.]