"Sir George thinks exactly with Lady Bluebottle."
Francis William Caulfield, who succeeded his father, in 1799, as second Earl of Charlemont, married, in 1802, Anne, daughter of William Bermingham, of Ross Hill, co. Galway. She died in 1876. Of Lady Charlemont's beauty Byron was an enthusiastic admirer. In his
Letter on the Rev. W.L. Bowles's Strictures on Pope
(February 7, 1821) he says,
"The head of Lady Charlemont (when I first saw her, nine years ago) seemed to possess all that sculpture could require for its ideal."
Moore (
Journals, etc.
, vol. iii. p. 78) has the following entry in his Diary for November 21, 1819: