Mary's brother Oliver, two years her senior, became a clergyman and held the posts of chaplain, then senior chaplain and chanter at Christ Church Cathedral
, Oxford. Other brothers died in infancy.
Nicholls, C. S., editor. The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford University Press.
Kennedy, Deborah. Poetic Sisters. Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Bucknell University Press.
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Education
Jan Morris
After a local primary school Morris attended, from nine years old, the choir school of Christ Church Cathedral
in Oxford. This very small, specialist community provided an adequate general education