Mary, Baroness Hervey

Standard Name: Hervey, Mary,,, Baroness
Used Form: Lady Hervey

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Friends, Associates Dorothea Celesia
DC 's birth family had accustomed her to moving in literary, political, and theatrical circles, and her friends included Mary Lady Hervey , David Hume , David Garrick , and Edward Gibbon . Her father...
Occupation John Wilson Croker
JWC became a lawyer, (moving from Ireland to London after the Act of Union) a Tory MP, an editor of several eighteenth-century texts (including letters by Lady Hervey and by Henrietta Howard, Lady Suffolk )...
Friends, Associates Grisell Murray
Lady Mary Hervey (the former Molly Lepel), one of GM 's dearest and oldest friends since their youth in London, made a journey to Scotland to stay with her.
Murray, Grisell. Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Right Honourable George Baillie of Jerviswood and of Lady Grisell Baillie.
164
death Grisell Murray
GM died at sixty-seven. Her friend Lady Hervey reported that she had every sense and faculty as perfect as at twenty-seven (indignantly rejecting the would-be consoling idea that her friend had lived long enough).
Murray, Grisell. Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Right Honourable George Baillie of Jerviswood and of Lady Grisell Baillie.
164, 167
Friends, Associates Grisell Murray
At almost every stage of GM 's life, her family had the habit of spending part of their time at their London house, where she evidently moved in literary as well as fashionable circles. She...

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