Elizabeth Gunning (other)
Elizabeth Gunning may refer to: * Elizabeth Gunning (translator), translator and novelist * Elizabeth Hamilton, 1st Baroness Hamilton of Hameldon, née Gunning, aunt of the writer See also *Gunning (other) Gunning or Gunnin can refer to: Places * Gunning, New South Wales, Australia, a town on the Old Hume Highway People with the surname Gunning * Anne Gunning (1929–1990), Irish fashion model * Ashleigh Gunning (born 1985), American soccer player ...

Elizabeth Gunning (translator)
Elizabeth Gunning (1769–1823) was a French-into-English translator and a novelist. Gunning was the daughter of John Gunning and writer Susannah Gunning. Miss Gunning married Major James Plunkett of Kinnaird, Co. Roscommon, Ireland in 1803, and they had a son James "Gunning" Plunkett. She died after a long illness on 20 July 1823, at Long Melford, Suffolk. Their other children included George Argyle Plunkett, who became a physician in Brooklyn, New York. Works She published several translations from the French, including: *''Memoirs of Madame de Barneveldt,'' 2 vols. 8vo, London, 1795. Prefixed to the second edition, in 1796, is a charming portrait of Miss Gunning by the younger Saunders, engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi, R.A. *''The Wife with two Husbands: a tragi-comedy, in three acts nd in prose Translated from the French (of Pixèrecourt),'' 8vo, London, 1803. She had unsuccessfully offered this, with an opera based upon it, to Covent Garden and Drury Lane Drury ...
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Elizabeth Hamilton, 1st Baroness Hamilton Of Hameldon
Elizabeth Campbell, Duchess of Argyll, 1st Baroness Hamilton of Hameldon ( December 1733 – 20 December 1790), earlier Elizabeth Hamilton, Duchess of Hamilton, Gunning, was a celebrated Anglo-Irish beauty, lady-in-waiting to Queen Charlotte, and society hostess. Early life Born in Hemingford Grey, Huntingdonshire, Elizabeth Gunning was one of the daughters of John Gunning of Castle Coote, County Roscommon, and his wife, Bridget Bourke, a daughter of Theobald Bourke, 3rd Viscount Mayo (1681–1741). Elizabeth's elder sister was Maria Gunning, later Countess of Coventry. In late 1740 or early 1741, the Gunning family returned from England to John Gunning's ancestral home in Ireland, where they divided their time between their country house in Roscommon and a rented town house in Dublin. According to some sources, when Maria and her sister Elizabeth came of age, their mother urged them to take up acting, in order to earn a living, owing to the family's relative poverty, ev ...
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