Louisa Beaufort

[1] Her grandfather was from the Huguenot community in London and moved to Ireland as chaplain to the viceroy.

She had two sisters, Harriet (called Henrietta) and Frances Anne Beaufort, and two brothers, William and Francis.

W. J. McCormack states that both Daniel and Louisa advised Maria Edgeworth in her writing of The Absentee.

[2] Louisa Beaufort had a paper presented to the Royal Irish Academy in October 1827 on the architecture and antiquities of Ireland prior to the twelfth century; this essay was then published.

Louisa Beaufort wrote a number of tour journals which are among the manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College.