Amabel Hume-Campbell | |
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Countess de Grey | |
Tenure | 1816–1833 |
Successor | Thomas de Grey |
Other titles | |
Born | Lady Amabel Yorke 23 January 1751 |
Died | 4 March 1833 Westminster, Greater London, England | (aged 82)
Spouse(s) | Alexander Hume-Campbell, Lord Polwarth |
Father | Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke |
Mother | Jemima Campbell, 2nd Marchioness Grey |
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Amabel Hume-Campbell, 1st Countess de Grey, 5th Baroness Lucas (née Yorke; 23 January 1751 – 4 March 1833)[1] was a British diarist and political writer who was a countess and baroness in her own right. Had she been male, she would have served in the House of Lords as a Whig. She wrote particularly about the French Revolution.