Anna Maria Catherine Clarke

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Anna Maria Catherine Price-Clarke (c. 1789 – 19 December 1817) was a British heiress who became Countess of Ormonde by marriage. She was the daughter of Job Hart Price-Clarke and Sarah Price-Clarke, raised at Sutton Scarsdale Hall in Derbyshire, and the heiress of her maternal uncle Godfrey Bagnall Clarke. Her inheritance included Sutton Scarsdale Hall, Belsize House, Chilcote Hall, Somersall Hall, and the Manor of Ulcombe. On 17 March 1805 she married Walter Butler, the 18th Earl of Ormonde and 1st Marquess of Ormonde, and thus became Countess of Ormonde. He was 19 years older than she.

The couple were painted in companion portraits by William Beechey to mark their marriage; her portrait is in the Ormonde Picture Collection at Kilkenny Castle. Anna Maria Catherine Price-Clarke died on 19 December 1817 at Belsize House, Hampstead, Middlesex. Her death was noted in Scots Magazine as “the most noble the Marchioness of Ormonde… in the 28th year of her age,” and a mourning ring engraved “A.M.C. ORMONDE Died 19 Dec 1817 Aged 27” commemorates her. She and Walter Butler had no children, so the Marquisate became extinct on his death three years later.