Horace Walpole

Mary Anne was very close to her father, William Roscoe , the historian, writer, patron of the arts, abolitionist and reformer. William began his professional career as a barrister, but retired early. Soon afterwards he...

EFC 's supposed great-grandfather, allegedly the father of Colonel Frederick, was Theodore Baron von Neuhoff , a German military adventurer who had wide-ranging international experience before supporting the Corsican independence struggle. In April 1736 he...

It was GE 's fairly short-lived affair with Arthur Annesley, Viscount Valentia (later Earl of Mountnorris), which caused her divorce; his was the only name of a lover mentioned during her marriage—as it was in...

Her mother, born Margaret Pigott , came from a long-established Shropshire family and probably had literary interests, since she was a member of the circle of independent-minded women formed around Sarah Scott and Lady Barbara Montagu

Her father, Henry Seymour Conway , was an army officer who rose to be Field-Marshal. His distinguished military career was matched by his services to Whig politics. His literary interests made him a friend of...

Horace Walpole was Anne's godfather.

It was known that Lorne had been in the running before Blandford, who was financially and socially a better catch. Gossips speculated. Love-letters from Blandford, and a letter from the Duke of Marlborough welcoming EG

FNBA 's father, Thomas Manners , first Earl of Rutland, was one of the peers who tried Anne Boleyn for treason. He went on to hold various distinguished official positions. He died on 20 September...

MH 's brother-in-law, Simon Harcourt, later the second earl , was married to Elizabeth , née Vernon, 1746-1826, who was a life-writer (like Mary), a social poet, and a collector of manuscript verse. This couple...

He was a relation (through his mother) of Agmondesham (or Agmondisham) Vesey , second husband of the bluestocking Elizabeth Vesey . From 1782 he was a member of the Club associated with Samuel Johnson ...

Anne Damer acted as supporter and confidante of each, and freely interpreted O'Hara's feelings and actions to MB . He for his part became close to Damer and anxious that Berry at this turning point...

MR 's affairs with the prince and with Fox overlapped with the beginning of what turned out to be her most enduring relationship: with Banastre Tarleton , an army colonel and a pitiless hero in...

They were married at St George's, Hanover Square, London. He was the natural son of Thomas Hervey, who in turn was one of the eight children of John, Lord Hervey . It...

Elizabeth wrote years later that her mother, Lady Berkeley, born Elizabeth Drax , had in general no love for children.Horace Walpole once wrote of Lady Berkeley that there is nothing as...

As well as a basic school education, the young TC (who had been thought slow as a small child) taught himself an astonishing range of abstruse subjects, mostly historical, by reading in circulating libraries and...