About Henrietta O'Neill
Lived 1758 – 1793 (aged 34–35). Henrietta O'Neill was an Irish poet and writer.
Henrietta O'Neill (1758 – September 1793) was an Irish poet. and his wife, the former Susannah Hoare, her younger half-siblings included Charles Brudenell-Bruce, 1st Marquess of Ailesbury. She married John O'Neill in 1777, when he was an Irish MP.
Henrietta O'Neill was a friend of the English novelist and poet Charlotte Smith. She was also an amateur actor and painter. Her best known poems are "Ode to the Poppy"
Her two children were: Charles O'Neill, 1st Earl O'Neill (1779–1841) John O'Neill, 3rd Viscount O'Neill (1780–1855)
O'Neill died in Portugal in 1793, while still in her thirties. Her husband outlived her, becoming a baron in 1793 and a viscount in 1795,
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Who was Henrietta O'Neill?
British poet and patron of the arts
When was Henrietta O'Neill born?
Henrietta O'Neill was born in 1758.
When did Henrietta O'Neill die?
Henrietta O'Neill died in 1793.
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Henrietta O'Neill was a poet and writer.
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Henrietta O'Neill was Irish.
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