Anna Maria Catherine Clarke
Anna Maria Catherine Price-Clarke was a British heiress, who became Countess of Ormonde by marriage.
Biography
Price-Clarke was the daughter of Job Hart Price-Clarke and his wife Sarah Price-Clarke. She was raised at Sutton Scarsdale Hall in Derbyshire and was the heiress of her maternal uncle Godfrey Bagnall Clarke. Her inherited property included Sutton Scarsdale Hall, Belsize House, Chilcote Hall, Somersall Hall and the Manor of Ulcombe.She married Walter Butler, Chief Butler of Ireland, 18th Earl of Ormonde, 1st Marquess of Ormonde on 17 March 1805 and was styled Countess of Ormonde. Her husband was 19 years her senior.
Price-Clarke and her husband were painted in companion portraits by William Beechey when they married. Her portrait is on display as part of the Ormonde Picture Collection at Kilkenny Castle.
She died in 1817 at Belsize House, Hampstead, Middlesex, England. Her death was announced in the Scots Magazine:
She and her husband had no children, so the Marquisate became extinct on his death three years later.