Richard Shackleton

ML 's father, Richard Shakleton or Shackleton, from a family which had settled in Ireland from Yorkshire, was a schoolmaster at Ballitore School . Unusually for a Quaker, he had been educated at Trinity College

ML 's mother put her children into the Quaker plain dress at an early age, in order to make no difference between them and their older half-siblings. Mary was well educated, and developed her taste...

ML published Memoirs and Letters of Richard and Elizabeth Shackleton, which prints her parents' letters (and some, as the title-page points out, of her grandfather Abraham ) and her mother's own Memoirs.

Mary Shackleton (later ML ) visited London with her father , who was going to attend the annual Quaker meeting there.