Francis Needham, 2nd Earl of Kilmorey

Francis Jack Needham, 2nd Earl of Kilmorey (12 December 1787 – 20 June 1880), known as Viscount Newry from 1822 to 1832, was an Anglo-Irish peer and Member of Parliament.

Lord Kilmorey scandalised Victorian society by eloping with his ward, Priscilla Anne Hoste (26 June 1823 – 21 October 1854), when he was in his late fifties and she was 20.

Her father died when she was a small child and her mother allegedly was careless of her relations with Lord Kilmorey.

A year after their elopement, in July 1844, they had a child, Charles, who Lord Kilmorey acknowledged as his son and to whom he gave his surname.

It is in St Margarets (the subdistrict named after the house and grounds the Earl bought) in Twickenham and is maintained jointly by Richmond upon Thames Council and English Heritage.