Lady Louisa Lilias (Lelias) Plunket Greene (7 November 1833 – 30 March 1891) was an Irish author of children's stories writing under the names: Louisa Lilias Greene, Louisa Lilias Plunket, Baroness Greene, R. J. Greene, Louisa Lelias Greene.
Biography
The Hon. Louisa Lelias Plunket was born on 7 November 1833, the daughter of
John Span Plunket, 3rd Baron Plunket
John Span Plunket, 3rd Baron Plunket of Newtown, County Cork (10 July 1793 – 16 April 1871) was an Irish peer and Queen's Counsel. He was the second son of William Plunket, 1st Baron Plunket, and Catherine MacAusland. He succeeded his brother Th ...
of Newton (1793-1871) and Charlotte Bushe, daughter of the Right Hon.
Charles Kendal Bushe
Charles Kendal Bushe (1767 – 10 July 1843), was an Irish lawyer and judge. Known as "silver-tongued Bushe" because of his eloquence,Healy, Maurice ''The Old Muster Circuit'' Michael Joseph Ltd. 1939 he was Solicitor-General for Ireland from ...
, Lord Chief of the Court of King's Bench in Ireland.
Her siblings were:
William Conyngham Plunket, 4th Baron Plunket and Archbishop of Dublin; Charles Bushe Plunket (1830-1880);
David Robert Plunket, 1st Baron Rathmore; Hon. Arthur Cecil Crampton Plunket (1845-1884); Patrick Henry Coghill Plunket (b. 1845); Anna Plunket (d. 1884); Katherine Frances Coghill (d. 1881); Hon. Charlotte Plunket (d. 1878); Emily Mary Plunket; Selina of Plunket; Josephine Alice Plunket; Isabella Katherine Plunket.
On 27 July 1852, she married Richard Jonas Greene, son of the Right Hon.
Richard Wilson Greene
Richard Wilson Greene PC, KC (1791–1861) was an Irish barrister and judge.
He was born in Dublin, the son of Sir Jonas Greene, who was Recorder of Dublin from 1822 until his death in 1828, and his wife, the leading actress Marianne Hitchc ...
, Baron of the
Court of Exchequer (Ireland)
The Court of Exchequer (Ireland) or the Irish Exchequer of Pleas, was one of the senior courts of common law in Ireland. It was the mirror image of the equivalent court in England. The Court of Exchequer was one of the four royal courts of justic ...
, and Elizabeth Wilson.
Their children were:
# Charlotte Selina Franks (1853-1883);
# The Right Hon. Sir
William Conyngham Greene (1854-1934);
# Elizabeth Alice Greene;
# Charles Kendal Greene;
# Prof.
Harry Plunket Greene
Harry Plunket Greene (24 June 1865 – 19 August 1936) was an Irish baritone who was most famous in the formal concert and oratorio repertoire. He wrote and lectured on his art, and was active in the field of musical competitions and examinations ...
(1865-1936); and
# Geoffrey Philip Greene (1868-1930).
[Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh. Burke's Irish Family Records. London, U.K.: Burkes Peerage Ltd, 1976]
Louisa Lelias Plunket Greene died on 30 March 1891 in Dublin, Ireland.
[Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003]
Works
*''Across the Garden Wall''
*''Alda's Leap And Other Stories''
*''Bound by a spell, or the Hunted Witch of the Forest'' (1885)
*''The Broken Promise, And Other Tales'' (1870)
*''The Brother and Sister, or What Can It Matter?''
*''Cushions and Corners, or Holidays At Old Orchard''
*''Filling Up The Chinks''
*''The Golden Wrens, A tale'' (1898)
*''The grey house on the hill'' (1870)
*''Harry Galbraith, or The Pierced Eggs'' (1887)
*''The Lost Opal Ring'' (1905)
*''The Lost Telegram'' (1908)
*''Nettle Coats, or The Silent Princess''
*''On Angels' Wings, or the Story of a Little Violet of Edelsheim'' (1885)
*''Prince Croesus in Search of a Wife''
*''The School-boy Baronet''
*''A Winter and Summer at Burton Hall, A Children's Tale'' (1861)
References
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1833 births
1891 deaths
19th-century Irish women writers
British women children's writers
Daughters of barons
Louisa
Writers from Dublin (city)
Victorian women writers
Pseudonymous women writers
19th-century pseudonymous writers