Clifford, Anne [known as Lady Anne Clifford], countess of Pembroke, Dorset, and Montgomery (1590–1676), noblewoman and diarist, was born at Skipton Castle in Craven in the West Riding of Yorkshire on 30 January 1590, the only surviving child of George Clifford, third earl of Cumberland...
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Richard T. Spence
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Anne Clifford, countess of Pembroke, Dorset, and Montgomery (1590–1676) by William Larkin, 1618 National Trust Photographic Library / Geoffrey Shakerley
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Lady Mary Coke (1727–1811) by Allan Ramsay, 1762 private collection
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Coke [née Campbell], Lady Mary (1727–1811), letter writer and noblewoman, was born on 6 February 1727, either at Sudbrook, Surrey, or at 27 Bruton Street, London, the fifth and youngest daughter of the soldier and politician John Campbell, second duke of Argyll and duke of Greenwich...
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Cowper [née Clavering], Mary, Countess Cowper (1685–1724), courtier and diarist, was the elder of the two surviving children of John Clavering (bap. 1655, d. in or after 1702), landowner and mine owner, of Chopwell, co. Durham, and his first wife, Anne Thompson...
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Mary Cowper, Countess Cowper (1685–1724) by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1709 private collection. Photograph: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
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Anne Pimlott Baker
Hamilton [married name Dickenson], Mary (1756–1816), courtier and diarist, was the only child of Charles Hamilton (1721–1771), soldier, son of Lord Archibald Hamilton and grandson of the third duke of Hamilton, and his wife, Mary Catherine (d. 1778), daughter of Colonel Dufresne...
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Annalisa Nicholson
Mancini, Hortense (Ortensia), duchess of Mazarin (1646–1699), literary hostess, memoirist, and royal mistress, was born on 6 June 1646 and baptized at Santa Maria on via Lata in Rome on 8 June, the seventh of eight surviving children of Baron Lorenzo Mancini...
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Vivienne Larminie
Newdigate [née Fitton], Anne, Lady Newdigate (1574–1618), gentlewoman and letter writer, was born in October 1574 and baptized at Gawsworth, Cheshire, on 6 October, the elder daughter of Sir Edward Fitton (1548/9–1606) and his wife, Alice (d. 1627), daughter of Sir John Holcroft...
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Harriet Blodgett
Percy, Elizabeth [née Lady Elizabeth Seymour], duchess of Northumberland and suo jure Baroness Percy (1716–1776), courtier and diarist, was born on 26 November 1716, the daughter of Algernon Seymour, earl of Hertford and later seventh duke of Somerset (1684–1750) [see under...
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Elizabeth Percy, duchess of Northumberland and suo jure Baroness Percy (1716–1776) by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1757–9 Collection of the Duke of Northumberland. Photograph: Photographic Survey, Courtauld Institute of Art, London
