Lady Kirkmichael

Lady Kirkmichael is an acquaintance of Lady Bridlington who gives the shabbiest entertainments. She has a husband (presumably Lord Kirkmichael or Sir Kirkmichael) and a lanky daughter called Maria. She thinks that Robert Beaumaris ought to paid some attention to Maria in repayment for how agreeable she had been with him, which would have cost him nothing and would have given Maria a start in the world.

During the events of the novel the Kirkmichaels give a Venetian breakfast for six hundred people that Beaumaris misses but Arabella and Lady Bridlington attend.

Because Lady Kirkmichael is a lady while her daughter is a miss and her husband's rank is unknown, she could be the wife of a knight, a baronet, a baron, or a viscount.