[1] Lord Meath served as a diplomat abroad but he refused to go to Athens in 1873 to please her family.

He and his wife did not need to work so they decided to deal with "social problems and the relief of human suffering".

The Earl and his wife leased Ottershaw Park from 1882 to November 1883 from Sir Edward Colebrooke.

[1] In 1890 she bought Westbrook Place in Godalming and over the next two years it was converted to be The Meath Home of Comfort for Epileptics.

She felt that she had created divisions in "the East" but she was keen that the MCL should not confine itself to aglophones bit it might also spread to children native to the countries involved.