Born the Honourable Harriet Louisa Hester Gough-Calthorpe in 1832, she was the daughter of Frederick Gough-Calthorpe, 4th Baron Calthorpe and his wife, Lady Charlotte Sophia née Somerset.
On 5 February 1857 she married Lord Alfred Spencer-Churchill (1824-1893), second son of the 6th Duke of Marlborough. The marriage produced four daughters.
Lady Alfred Spencer-Churchill died on 20 July 1901.
Photographer unidentified.
From an album compiled by the sitter's brother, Augustus Gough-Calthorpe (1829-1910), 6th Baron Calthorpe from 1893.