Harriet (or "Harriett) Stewart, Countess of Galloway (18 August 1811 – 25 May 1885), formerly Lady Harriet Blanche Somerset, was the wife of Randolph Stewart, 9th Earl of Galloway. Galloway House

She was the daughter of

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, and the former Lady Charlotte Sophia Leveson-Gower. She married the future earl, who was eleven years older then her, on 9 August 1833, a year before he succeeded in the earldom, while he was Lord-Lieutenant of Kirkcudbrightshire and Wigtonshire. The earl and countess had six sons and seven daughters, including: *Lady Helen Blanche Stewart (1834-1903), who married Walter Clifford Mellor *

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(1835-1901), who married Lady Mary Arabella Arthur Gascoyne-Cecil * Randolph Henry Stewart, 11th Earl of Galloway (1836-1920), who married Amy Mary Pauline Cliffe and had issue. *Maj.-Gen. Hon. Alexander Stewart (1838-1896), who married Adela Maria Loder and had issue. *Lady Emma Georgiana Stewart (c.1840-1869), who married Wilbraham Frederic Tollemache, 2nd Baron Tollemache of Helmingham, and had issue. *Lady Mary Louisa Stewart (1842-1929), who married Charles Edward Stephen Cooke. *Lady Jane Charlotte Stewart (c.1844-1897), who married Henry Anthony Spedding. *Lady Emily Octavia Stewart (1847-1929), who married Hon. Francis Algernon James Chichester and had issue. *Lady Henrietta Caroline Stewart (1850-1930), who married Algernon Turnor. *Lady Isabel Maud Stewart (1852-1927), unmarried. *Hon. Fitzroy Somerset Keith Stewart (1858-1914), who married Elizabeth Louisa Rogers and had issue. In the course of their marriage, considerable work was done on the family seat, Galloway House.

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was employed in 1841to carry out alterations, including an additional floor in parts of the building. The earl died in 1873 and was succeeded in turn by his eldest son

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, and subsequently by his second son Randolph. The countess died in 1885 at her home in

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, London, aged 74.

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