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."
John Ireland (priest) John Ireland (8 September 1761 – 2 September 1842) was an English Anglican priest, who served as Dean of Westminster from 1816 until his death. In this role, he carried the crown during the coronation services at Westminster Abbey of two monarchs (George IV in 1821, William IV in 1831). Theologically and politically conservative, as shown in his writings, he was generous with the considerable riches that he acquired during his career, making large donations to support education and relieve poverty in his home town. In 1831, as Ireland was "a distinguished Benefactor of the University", Oxford had sought and obtained his permission to put on display a marble bust of him by the sculptor Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey. The bust is now in the Examination Schools of the university. During his lifetime, he established scholarships at the University of Oxford, and in his will, he left money to establish the post of Dean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture.