Mary Ballard Long (née Beckford)
(1735-1797), Wife of Chief Justice Edward LongSitter in 1 portrait
Mary Ballard Long (née Beckford)
by Henry Bone, after John Opie
pencil drawing squared in ink for transfer, 1797
NPG D17560
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Mitch OWENS
13 August 2019, 23:33
Mary Ballard Beckford (1736-1797), Mrs Edward Long, was the daughter and sole heiress of Thomas Beckford of the Jamaica sugar dynasty that also spawned William Beckford of Fonthill Abbey; her mother was the former Mary Elizabeth Byndloss. Mary Ballard Beckford first married John Pallmer, another rich Jamaica planter and a son of the chief justice of Jamaica. She married, in Jamaica, in 1758, as her second husband, Edward Long, a judge of the vice-admiralty of Jamaica, and his English seat was Aldermaston House, Berkshire. Children were: Edward Beeston Long; Lt Col Robert Ballard Long; Charles Beckford Long; Jane Catherine Long, Mrs Richard Dawkins; Elizabeth Long, Lady Henry Howard-Molyneux-Howard; and Charlotte Mary, wife of Sir George Pocock, bart.