Martha Lovelace and sometimes known after marriage as Lady Henry Beauclerk[1] (1709/10 – 5 March 1788) was a British courtier.
[2] In 1736 her brother died and Horace Walpole, who was a friend and part of the network she had established in court, wrote poetry for her, as did Mary Jones.
He rose to be a colonel but he ended his career when it was said that he refused to be posted to Minorca with the rest of his regiment.
She also owned over a thousand pounds worth of South Sea stock and this left equally to any of her daughters who were not married.
[2] In 1863 her will was brought in as evidence in a case discussed in the House of Lords concerning the rights of Martha Johnson to be the 8th Baroness Wentworth.