On the Wensleydale-Quaker side of the family, JF
could claim substantial connections, including the famous eighteenth-century botanist, physician, and writer Dr John Fothergill
, and his brother, the eminent Quaker preacher Samuel Fothergill
.
Her husband
, who had matriculated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford
, two years before she died, took his degree in divinity a year afterwards, and became a clergyman in Leicestershire, where his sister lived...