Andalusia Molesworth

Andalusia Molesworth born Andalusia Carstairs also known as Andalusia Grant; Lady Molesworth and Andalusia West ( – 16 May 1888) was a British singer and society hostess.

Life Molesworth did not come from a noble family. She entered the Royal Academy of Music and on leaving she demonstrated her abilities as a soprano singer at Covent Garden, although her acting abilities were unimpressive. She was known as Miss Grant and she appeared in a play about Rob Roy MacGregor, Guy Mannering and Isidore de Merida with the tenor John Braham.

She retired and married an older landowner, Temple West, of Mathon Lodge, Worcestershire, in 1831. When he died in 1839 she moved to London and took a house at 29 Half Moon Street. but Harriet broke with him over his marriage. She became known as a hostess inviting notable people to stay at Pencarrow House in Cornwall including Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Sullivan and Emperor Napoleon III.

Molesworth continued to be a society hostess for thirty years until she died in Eaton Place on 16 May 1888.