Career
She was famous for ruling "a social circle of tribades in Dublin" in the early 1730s, her primary lover being Lady Allen. She was herself bisexual. She was the subject of a debt action brought by an Oxford don, William King, who alleged she owed him several thousand pounds.
He lost the case and in revenge, in 1732, wrote a satire against her, entitled "The Toast", which portrays her as "a promiscuous bisexual witch and lesbian named "Myra".
lieutenant is notable for an early use of the word lesbian in the modern sense. She died on 23 February 1735/36 in Dublin, Ireland, and was buried in Saint Audoen"s Church, Dublin.
