Caroline Girle (27 December 1736 – 17 November 1817) was a diarist who kept a journal throughout her life.
[1] Although some volumes were destroyed, what remains is in the British Library.
[2] These journals earned her the sobriquet "The Oxfordshire Diarist".
[3][4] Girle was the daughter of John Girle FRS (c. 1702–1761) and Barbara Slaney (1717–1801),[5] and had an elder brother, John (1735–1746).
On 5 August 1762, in Whitchurch-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, Girle married Philip Lybbe Powys; they had four children: