Elizabeth Seymour, Duchess of Somerset was skewered in satire by the essayist who was Dean of what Dublin cathedral?
Elizabeth Seymour, Duchess of Somerset Elizabeth Seymour, Duchess of Somerset and "suo jure" Baroness Percy (26 January 1667 – 24 November 1722) was a great heiress. She was styled Lady Elizabeth Percy between 1667 and 1679, Elizabeth Percy, Countess of Ogle between 1679 and 1680, Elizabeth Percy, Dowager Countess of Ogle between 1680 and 1681, Lady Elizabeth Thynne between 1681 and 1682 and Elizabeth Seymour, Duchess of Somerset between 1682 and 1722. Elizabeth was the only surviving child and sole heiress of Joceline Percy, 11th Earl of Northumberland (1644–1670). Lady Elizabeth was one of the closest personal friends of Queen Anne, which led Jonathan Swift to direct at her one of his sharpest satires, "The Windsor Prophecy" in which she was named "Carrots."
Andrew Marvell Andrew Marvell ( ; 31 March 1621 – 16 August 1678) was an English metaphysical poet, satirist and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1678. During the Commonwealth period he was a colleague and friend of John Milton. His poems range from the love-song "To His Coy Mistress", to evocations of an aristocratic country house and garden in "Upon Appleton House" and "The Garden", the political address "An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland", and the later personal and political satires "Flecknoe" and "The Character of Holland".