Mary Monck
Mary Monck was a celebrated beauty and poet, born in Ireland in the late 1600's. She was a daughter of Robert Molesworth, 1st Viscount Molesworth. According to A Compendium of Irish Biography
{{quote:"he acquired an intimate knowledge of Latin, Italian, and Spanish literature. Chiefly residing in the country, one of a numerous family, she cultivated poetry more as an amusement than with a view to publication. She married George Monck of Dublin. After her early death from consumption, at Bath, in 1715, a volume of her poems and translations was published. Several of her pieces are given in Cibber's Lives of the Poets."}}