Mary Desborough (1814–94)

Daughter of Major-general Lawrence Desborough and his wife Catherine; born in Rochester, Kent, baptised in Chiswick, Middlesex. Married her cousin Henry Desborough in 1834; widowed, 1862. Mother of thirteen children, including Edward Brandram Desborough, and Louisa A’hmuty Desborough, who married Wallis Nash of the Rookery, Down, Kent. Associated with Down School Board during the 1870s, when she lived at Laurel Grove, Down.