Lady Anne Lindsay
, aged forty-two, stood the world's smile by marrying a man about twelve years younger than herself, Andrew Barnard
, son of the Bishop of Limerick.
Crawford, Alexander William Crawford Lindsay, twenty-fifth Earl of. Lives of the Lindsays. 2nd ed., John Murray, 1858, 3 vols.
2: 383
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Family and Intimate relationships
Lady Anne Barnard
LAB
's husband, Andrew Barnard
, died in South Africa, where he had returned following the re-occupation of the Cape by the British the previous year.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Material Conditions of Writing
Lady Anne Barnard
When LAB
moved to the Cape of Good Hope with her husband
in 1797, she began to keep journals and to make drawings and watercolours descriptive of life there. The diary was actually written at...
Residence
Lady Anne Barnard
LAB
lived at the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa with her husband
, who was Colonial Secretary there.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.