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The Baroness de Speth was born in Germany in 1781 or 1782 (census, 1851). She is listed in the census of 1851 among those in residence at Frogmore House, Windsor, and is described there as an unmarried woman. She died at her residence in Ebury Street on 19 July 1859 (Evening Mail, 22 July 1859, p. 8). ‘The Baroness has been for 52 years the affectionate and devoted friend and servant of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent (Evening Mail, 27 July 1859, p. 1).

The website of the Royal Collections Trust gives the Baroness's name as Marie Walburg, Baroness de Speth, but no other source for the additional names has been found.

(See O.13.19, No. 112, and O.13.20, No. 3. The London and County Directory of 1811 lists a Mrs Blackwell at 6 Seymour Place, Mayfair. She may have been connected with the engraver Charles Theodosius Heath, who later lived at the same address. Mrs Blackwell wrote to Dawson Turner in 1820 in connection with George Graham Blackwell (d. 1838), then at Oxford, who paid a visit to the Turners during the long vacation of that year.)