Lady Elizabeth Percy, first married to the Earl of Ogle, then to Thomas Thynne, of Longleat, and lastly to the Duke of Somerset, a leading Whig. ('Of good judgment,' says Macky in his Characters, of the Duke: Swift comments, 'not a grain, hardly common sense.') The Duchess's influence at Court, the chief counterpoise to that of Mrs. Masham, was a source of danger to the Ministry, and much dreaded by Swift, who satirized her in the Windsor Prophecy, and gave mortal offence by alluding to her red hair in the name 'Carrots' which represents her there.