Georgiana Bloomfield [née Liddell], also known as Lady Bloomfield (1822–1905), was a courtier

Courtier

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 and author

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Life

She was the youngest daughter of Thomas Henry Liddell, first Baron Ravensworth (1775–1885), and his wife, Maria Susannah (c.1773–1845), and sister to the Marchioness of Normanby. She was maid of honour to Queen Victoria

Victoria of the United Kingdom

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 until her marriage with John Bloomfield, 2nd Baron Bloomfield

John Bloomfield, 2nd Baron Bloomfield

John Arthur Douglas Bloomfield, 2nd Baron Bloomfield, GCB, PC, DL was a British peer and diplomatist.-Background:...

 on 4 September 1845. Their marriage was childless. She joined her husband on his diplomatic delegations, to St Petersburg the month after her marriage, to Berlin

Berlin

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 (1851–60), and to Vienna

Vienna

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(1861–71).

Works

• Reminiscences of Court and Diplomatic Life (2 vols.), 1883: record of her career of her life as courtier and as the wife of a diplomat.
• Memoir of Benjamin, Lord Bloomfield, (2 vols.), 1884: memoirs of her father-in-law.
• Gleanings of a Long Life, 1902: collection of extracts from her favourite books.