Pál Széchényi (1789–1871)

Count Pál Széchényi de Sárvár-Felsővidék (10 November 1789 – 30 March 1871) was a Hungarian politician who was an Imperial and Royal Chamberlain.

[5][6] His paternal grandparents were Count Zsigmond Széchényi, and Countess Mária Cziráky of Cirák and Dénesfalva.

[8] A lieutenant colonel, Count Széchényi served as an Imperial and Royal Chamberlain to the Emperor.

[8] On 10 June 1811, Széchényi married Lady Caroline Meade (1794–1820), the eldest daughter of Irish peer Richard Meade, 2nd Earl of Clanwilliam and Countess Marie-Caroline von Thun und Hohenstein (a daughter of Count Franz Josef Anton von Thun und Hohenstein and Countess Maria Wilhelmine Uhlfeldt, herself the daughter of Count Anton Corfiz Ulfeldt).

[11] Her sister, Countess Melanie Zichy-Ferraris, was the third wife of Prince Klemens von Metternich.

Lithograph of his second wife, Countess Emilie, by Franz Eybl , 1833
Drawing of his daughter, Countess Erzsébet Széchényi c. 1847