Elizabeth Sneyd (1753–1780)
Elizabeth Edgeworth (1780–1797)
1753–97
Daughter of Major Edward Sneyd of Lichfield and his wife Susanna Cook. Sister of Honora Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth’s second wife; married him as his third wife after Honora’s death in 1780. Lived on Edgeworth’s Irish estate from 1782 and devoted herself with Edgeworth to the education of their children.
Sources
Burke’s landed gentry 1879
ODNB s.v. Edgeworth, Richard Lovell
Bibliography
Burke’s landed gentry: A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank but unvisited with heritable honours. Burke’s genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry. By John Burke et al. 1st–18th edition. London: Henry Colburn [and others]. 1833–1969.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
