(d. 1740), dau. of Sir Richard Levinge of Mullalea, co. Westmeath; m. c.1704 2nd E. Ferrers (1677 - 1729); d. Paris.
1729 - 30 see Campbell 1729 - 30
Lady Ferrers arrived in Paris in 1729, newly widowed, and took for her lover Charles Wyndham's travelling tutor Campbell.1 On the grounds that Wyndham 'understood the language enough to travel without him which my Lady Ferrers did not',2 Campbell abandoned his charge and proceeded to Venice,3 Rome and Naples4 with Lady Fermor. By 1730 they had been joined by Lady Ferrers's gouty brother, Sir Richard Levinge. Lady Ferrers eventually left Rome on 20 April, returning to England: 'She seems to be very attached to the King, although her manner of conversing familiarly with Lady Newburg, [Anne] Darcy, Lady Anne Maxwell and other Jacobite ladies ... would lead one to believe the contrary'; her brother stayed in Rome for the summer,5 and went to Naples in July.6
A pair of Rosalba Carriera portraits of c.1729 - 30 (priv. coll.) are said to be of Lord and Lady Ferrers, but the identities remain uncertain.7
1. Black 1992, 200. 2. Petworth House archive 6320 (C. Wyndham, 28 Jan. 1730). 3. SP 99/63, f.123 (Burges, 20 Jan. 1730). 4. SP 98/32, f.21 (Walton, 26 Jan. 1730). 5. SP 98/32, f.57 (Walton, 20 Apr. 1730). 6. Ibid., f.81 (6 Jul. 1730). 7. F. Russell, Burl.Mag., 131[1989]:857.