Harriet Holroyd, Countess of Sheffield (19 June 1802 – 1 January 1889), formerly Lady Harriet Lascelles, was the wife of

George Holroyd, 2nd Earl of Sheffield George Augustus Frederick Charles Holroyd, 2nd Earl of Sheffield FRS (16 March 1802 – 5 April 1876), styled Viscount Pevensey from 1816 to 1821, was a British Conservative politician. Sheffield was the son of John Baker-Holroyd, 1st Earl of She ...

, and a

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Queen Adelaide , house = Saxe-Meiningen , father = Georg I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen , mother = Princess Louise Eleonore of Hohenlohe-Langenburg , birth_date = , birth_place = Meiningen, Saxe-Meiningen, Holy ...

, the consort of King

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. She was the sixth child and eldest daughter of

Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl of Harewood Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl of Harewood DL (25 December 1767 – 24 November 1841), known as Viscount Lascelles from 1814 to 1820, was a British peer, slave plantation and other land owner, chiefly inherited art collector, and Member of Parliament. ...

, and she married the Earl of Sheffield on 6 June 1825. Her portrait soon appeared in ''La Belle Assemblée'', the society magazine, which carried pictures of "the female nobility and ladies of distinction". It was based on an original painting by the portraitist John Jackson, which was hung at the Royal Academy. Their children were: *Frederick Henry Stuart, Viscount Pevensey (1827–1829) *Lady Susan Harriet Holroyd (1829-1895) who married Edward Vernon Harcourt, MP, and had children *

Henry Holroyd, 3rd Earl of Sheffield Henry North Holroyd, 3rd Earl of Sheffield (18 January 1832 – 21 April 1909), styled Viscount Pevensey until 1876, was an English Conservative politician and patron of cricket. The Sheffield Shield is named after him. Life Born in Marylebone, L ...

(1832–1909) *Douglas Edward (1834-1882), who became a barrister and died unmarried The earl died in April 1876, aged 74, and was succeeded by his eldest surviving son, Henry. The countess died in Brighton, aged 86. She is buried in the Sheffield family mausoleum at the Church of St. Andrew and St. Mary the Virgin, Fletching, East Sussex.

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