, sole daughter and heir to George earl of Cumberland, was born at
, sole daughter and heir to George
earl of Cumberland, was born at Skipton castle in Craven,
Jan. 30, 1589, and married first, to Richard lord Buckhurst, afterwards earl of Dorset, by whom she had three
sons, who died young, and two daughters, Margaret who
married John, earl of Thanet, and Isabel, who married
James, earl of Northampton. She married, secondly, to
Philip Herbert, earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, by
whom she had no issue. This lady, who by the failure of
the male line, possessed the great hereditary estates of the
Clifford Cumberland family, has lately become celebrated,
particularly from a letter of hers published in the “World,
”
No. 14, by lord Orford, addressed to sir Joseph Williamson, who, when secretary of state to king Charles the
second, had written to name a candidate to her for the
Borough of Appleby. The brave countess, with all the
spirit of her ancestors, and with all the eloquence of independent Greece, returned the following laconic answer: