Harriet Stewart, Countess of Galloway


Harriet Stewart, Countess of Galloway, formerly Lady Harriet Blanche Somerset, was the wife of Randolph Stewart, 9th Earl of Galloway.
She was the daughter of Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort, and his wife, the former Lady Charlotte Sophia Leveson-Gower.
She married the future earl, who was eleven years her senior, on 9 August 1833, a year before he succeeded in the earldom, while he was Lord-Lieutenant of Kirkcudbrightshire and Wigtonshire.
The earl and countess had six sons and seven daughters, including:
In the course of their marriage, considerable work was done on the family seat, Galloway House. William Burn was employed in 1841to carry out alterations, including an additional floor in parts of the building.
The earl died in 1873 and was succeeded in turn by his eldest son Alan Stewart, 10th Earl of Galloway, and subsequently by his second son Randolph. The countess died in 1885 at her home in Eaton Square, London, aged 74.