Charlotte Rich, Countess of Warwick (1680–1731), formerly Lady Charlotte Myddelton became Charlotte Addison, was an English noblewoman. She was the wife of Edward Rich, 6th Earl of Warwick. Her second husband was the satirist Joseph Addison.[1]
In 1716, she married Joseph Addison,[3] who shortly afterwards became Secretary of State for the Southern Department. They had one daughter, Charlotte (died 1797), who inherited their home at Bilton Hall. In a biography of Addison, Samuel Johnson claimed that his wife treated him like a slave.[4] Addison died in 1719.[5]
The dowager countess was buried on 12 July 1731, alongside her first husband, at St Mary Abbots, Kensington.[6] A portrait of her by Herman van der Myn, dating from around 1726, is held by the National Trust at Chirk Castle.[7]
^Julie Aronson; Marjorie E.; Cynthia Amnéus (2006). Perfect Likeness: European and American Portrait Miniatures from the Cincinnati Art Museum. Yale University Press. p. 163. ISBN9780300115802.
^G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume XII/2, page 417
^Charles James Ribton-Turner (1893). Shakespeare's Land: Being a Description of Central and Southern Warwickshire. F. Glover. p. 272.
^Hester Lynch Piozzi (1989). The Piozzi Letters: Correspondence of Hester Lynch Piozzi, 1784-1821. University of Delaware Press. p. 496.