Elizabeth Fox, Baroness Holland

[2] They had five children:[4] Webster was intensely unhappy in her marriage and she spent much of the early 1790s travelling in Europe, visiting France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy.

[2] She enjoyed the guidance and friendship of the Duchess of Devonshire and the politician Thomas Pelham, with whom she had an affair resulting in a daughter, Harriet Frances (b.1794).

[1][2][5] In 1794, Webster met in Naples the Whig politician Henry Fox, 3rd Baron Holland, two years her junior, and they embarked on a love affair.

Visitors included Lord Grey, George Tierney, Samuel Rogers, Walter Scott, Ugo Foscolo, Sydney Smith, and Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

[14] The gold snuffbox, which had been a gift to Napoleon from Pope Pius VI, was later bequeathed by Lady Holland to the British Museum.

[16] In November of that year, Holland moved to 9 Great Stanhope Street, a property she rented from Lord Palmerston.

[5] In his Memoirs, diarist Charles Greville called Lady Holland "a social light which illuminated and adorned England, and even Europe, for half a century".

[21] In 1824, Lord Holland sent his wife a note containing the following verse:"The dahlia you brought to our isle Your praises for ever shall speak; Mid gardens as sweet as your smile,