Elizabeth Cartwright, Viscountess Tyrconnel (d.1780)

Enoch Seeman the younger (Gda?sk c.1694 – London 1744). Oil painting on canvas, Elizabeth Cartwright, Viscountess Tyrconnel (d.1780) by Enoch Seeman the younger (Gda?sk c.1694 – London 1744) A three-quarter length portrait of the second wife of 1st Viscount Tyrconnel whom he married in 1732, wearing a white satin dress, seated by a table on which she rests her left arm. Daughter of William Cartwright of Marnham, Nottinghamshire; married in 1732, as his second wife, Sir John Brownlow, Viscount Tyrconnel (1690-1724)his first wife Eleanor Cust having died in 1730. At first she was much disliked by her husband's family, but later became a cherished aunt of his Cust nephews and nieces. It was on a ship named after her that four of the five Innuit Indians brought to England by her nephew George Cartwright in 1772, and much feted, died on their way back to Labrador. She died in 1780. There were no children of the marriage. Erddig, Wrexham (Accredited Museum)