John Fothergill

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 .

ML 's mother, Elizabeth (Carleton) Shakleton or Shackleton , was born in Dublin. She had some pleasure in clothes, a musical ear, skill at singing, and an uncommon taste for drawing, all of which she...

EGF had met novelist Laurence Sterne and botanist-physician John Fothergill in London. Among her large circle of friends at home, other writers were prominent. She knew the poet Nathaniel Evans and the physician and educator...