(1747 - 1823), dau. of Shuckburgh Boughton of Poston Court, Here.; m. 1769 Clotworthy Upton (d. 1785), cr. B. Templetown [I] 1776.
1773 - 5 see Clotworthy Upton
1792 - 5 Rome (Dec. 1792 - Jan. 1793), Naples (by 24 Mar. 1793 - c.Mar. 1795), Venice (2 - 9 May) [Vienna by Jun.]
An amateur sculptor of some distinction, Lady Templetown was first in Italy as Mrs Upton with her husband in 1773 - 5, see Clotworthy Upton.
She returned to Italy late in 1792 as Lady Templetown, a widow with three daughters - Elizabeth Albana (who was born in Albano in August 1775), Caroline and Sophia - and 'As Girls go', she told Sir Roger Newdigate, 'they are not amiss'.1 Lady Templetown was in Rome in December 1792 'enchanted' by Flaxman's works and on 19 January 1793 Mrs Flaxman went to see Lady Templetown's drawings.2 By March 1793 she was in Naples,3 where she appears to have spent the next two years. By July 1794, together with other English ladies in Naples and Rome, she was 'busily employed in making shirts, &c. for the British troops at Corsica'.4 That summer in Naples she met Francis Newdigate, and she was writing to Sir Roger Newdigate in September; he supplied her with a 'recipe' for her failing eyesight, while she expressed a wish to return home, but the French wars made such a journey hazardous: 'I had rather be destroyed by the burning Monster that is near us [there had been an extraordinary eruption of Vesuvius in June 1794]', she wrote, 'than by those new species of Barbarians'.1 In a second letter of January 1795 she complained of the uniformity of her days,5 but at the same time she was described as spending a 'large jointure' in masquerades and balls,6 doubtless for her daughters' sake (a drawing of the three Upton daughters made by Lady Henry Fitzgerald in the summer of 1794 had been much admired).7 In December 1794 Lord Longford was pleased to discover in Naples the pretty Miss Uptons and the 'pleasant society' at their mother's house and in January 1795 he described Lady Templetown as 'by nature a meddler but it is a good kind of one who wishes really to forward any business she undertakes (& she wd undertake more than any other ten people)'.8 The family left Naples soon after, for by early May they were in Venice,9 heading for Vienna, where they were reunited with her eldest son, Lord Templetown, in June.(10)
1. Newdigate MSS B 2299 (20 Sep. 1794). 2. Add.39780, f.197v. (Mrs Flaxman, 15 Dec. 1792). Mrs Flaxman jnl.MSS 2 (19 Jan. 1793). 3. Parker list MSS, (betw. 1 Dec. 1792 - 24
Mar. 1793). 4. The Oracle, 21 Jul. 1794. 5. Newdigate MSS b 2300 (19 Jan. 1795). 6. Morning Chronicle, 10 Jan. 1795. 7. Fitzgerald, 214. 8. Longford letters MSS (21 Dec. 1794, 26 Jan. 1795). 9. ASV is 766 - 81. 10. Longford letters MSS (26 Jun. 1795).