Countess of Dudley

A cabinet card portrait of society beauty Georgina Moncreiffe, Countess of Dudley.

Born Georgina Elisabeth Moncreiffe in 1846, she was the daughter of Sir Thomas Moncrieffe, 7th Bt., and Lady Louisa Hay-Drummond. On 21 November 1865 she became the second wife of William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley. They had six sons and one daughter.

During the Boer War and World War I, Lady Dudley served with the British Red Cross Society. In late 1900, she was involved in running a Mayfair nursing home for disabled officers under the auspices of the Red Cross.

She died on 2 February 1929, aged 82, at Pembroke Lodge in Richmond Park.

Photographed by William and Daniel Downey of London and Newcastle.