Etheldreda Townshend
English society hostess · Lived 1708 to 1788 · aged 80
Audrey Etheldreda Townshend, Viscountess Townshend, was a celebrated English socialite, widely believed to have inspired the character "Lady Bellaston", the notorious fictional seductress in Henry Fielding's The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling.
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Lived 1708 to 1788 · aged 80