A poetess, much admired in her day, this lady was the daughter of Sir William Kingsmill, of Sidmonton, county of Southampton: she was one of the maids of honour to the Duchess of York, second wife of James II., and the Earl of Winchelsea, whom she married, was gentleman of the bedchamber to the duke. She had considerable poetical merit, and was the friend of Pope, between whom and herself many complimentary epistles passed. Her poem on the Spleen, then a fashionable complaint, gained her great reputation. She wrote several plays, and a great number of verses besides those published in 1713, and, from the value of some of her compositions, it is to be regretted that she wrote no more. She was called Ardelia in poetic phrase, and Pope thus addresses her:—