Hester Maria Elphinstone, Viscountess Keith

Hester Maria Elphinstone, Viscountess Keith, born Hester Maria Thrale, was a British literary correspondent and intellectual. She was the eldest child of Hester Thrale, diarist, author and confidante of Samuel Johnson, and Henry Thrale, a wealthy brewer and patron of the arts. She became the second wife of George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith.