Mrs.

G[eorge] Lenox Conyngham [born Elizabeth Holmes, a Romantic poetess], "List of Italian
Authors on Military Science, communicated by Major Portlock R. E., F. R. S.", and published as
"Paper 11" in the First Number of the [Engineers] Corps papers, and memoirs on military
subjects: compiled [by Captain John Williams] from contributions of the officers of the Royal
engineers and the East India Company's engineers, London, John Weale, MDCCCXLVIII,
1848, pp. 62-67.
"Mrs. G. Lenox Conyngham" is Elizabeth Emmet Holmes, the only daughter of the Irish barrister
and patriot Robert Holmes (1765-1859), and a niece of the patriot Robert Emmet. She was a well
known Romantic poetess, and married in 1827 George Lenox Conyngham (1796-1887), who since
1812 was employed in the Foreign Office and became First Clerk, chief of the Financial
Department; he was also a keen botanist. Her son George Jr., "Gino", who died young in 1866 in
Rio de Janeiro, was an attaché at the British Embassy in Naples: and maybe the source of the List of
Italian Authors drawn up by his mother.

[see "Lenox Conyngham Papers", in Public Record Office of Northern Ireland Crown. Susan O'Loghlen and Ciara
McDonnell, Doneraile Papers, Collection List No. 62, Leabharlann Náisiúnta na hÉireann-National Library of Ireland,
http://www.nli.ie/pdfs/mss%20lists/doneraile.pdf. The Dublin University Magazine, IV, p. 116, July 1834. David James
O'Donoghue, The Poets of Ireland. A Biographical and Bibliographical Dictionary of Irish Writers of English Verse,
Dublin, Hodges Figgis & Co; London, Henry Frowde, Oxford U. P., 1912, p. 78. Mina Lenox Conyngham, Springhill:
An Old Ulster House and the People who lived in It, Ulster Historical Foundation, 2005. C. P. Brand, Italy and the
English Romantics. The Italianate Fashion in Early Nineteenth-Century England, Cambridge U. P., 1957.]