Catherine Secker

Her mother, born Mary Martyn , was befriended in her straits as a single parent by Catherine Benson (a bishop's sister), who had been living with the Talbots. From the time of Catherine Benson's marriage...

Thomas Secker wrote to Catherine Talbot when she was about thirteen that she stood in the place of a child to him and his wife , who were childless. He was a clergyman who rose...

CT composed a poem To the Memory of Mrs. Secker, who had just died, as to a second mother.

As a young woman living in London, CT often visited Bath on account of Catherine Secker 's ill health.