Sir Lancelot Allgood

HG died in London: the few and scanty printed reports of her death identified her as the sister of her successful brother .

Hannah's younger half-brother Lancelot (her only legitimate sibling, and the only one to live to adulthood) became MP for Northumberland and High Sheriff of that county. He was good to Hannah, providing her with annuities...

The close friend and fellow cook with whom AC corresponded, and who figures so largely in her published book, is never named. Cook seems not to have been a personal acquaintance of Hannah Glasse ...

AC had a grudge against Glasse dating back to the feud between her family and Glasse's half-brother, Lancelot Allgood (Esquire Flash in her book), who had, she said, ruined their livelihood. She expresses a marked...

AC calls herself a profess'd [that is, professional] Cook before her marriage, and as eighteen years an inn-keeper. She joined with her husband and later with her children too in running the Black Bull inn...