Description: Lady Katherine (also Catherine) Manners (c.1603-1649), daughter of Francis Manners, 6th Earl of Rutland. She married Irish peer Randall MacDonnell. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Villiers,_Duchess_of_Buckingham for further information about Katherine.
This image is one of a collection by the famous local antiquarian, Thomas Bateman, of Middleton by Youlgreave. (1821-1861). Bateman organized his collection by inserting them into a 4 volume copy of Lysons Magna Britannia, Derbyshire, creating a fascinating and unique illustrated record of the county. The purchase of the collection for Derbyshire Libraries was made possible by the generous bequest of Miss Frances Webb of Whaley Bridge, well known local historian, who died in December 2006.