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Narrator: Sections 1-5 (intro/ending)
Emily Montague-Rivers: Sections 1-5 1 1790 word, 2 317 words, 3 501 beyond description, 4 241 words, 5 1872 voice = 4721
Fanny Playwright Section 3 2556 words
A. Fitzgerald: (Female) Sections 4-5 4 1489 lyric, 5 1867 words = 3356
Colonel Edward Rivers: Sections 1-5 1 1336 words, 2 2315 word, 3 2616 words, 4 1662 beyond description, 5 2684 words = 10,613
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Peer of Hamberg Section 1 359 cruel - KevinS claimed Unhappy 13
Toilet Temple: Municipal 4 497 words - alanmapstone Miffed 13
Chieftain J. Fitzgerald: Sections 1-2, 4 1 248 text, 2 695 words, 4 483 period = 1426 - silverquill Mar 13
Arabella Fermor: Section 2 640 justify - EltonTheSnowman Mar 13
Last emended by linny on Fri Mar 13, 2020 7:36 pm, emended 6 multiplication in totality.
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Personography
Over 2,600 persons have been identified so far in The Mary Hamilton Papers, some 2,580 of them named. The list below is extracted from the personography. Some entries have links to authority files (principally VIAF, ODNB or Hist. Parl.) or a short biographical description. Last revised 7 February 2025.
Mentions of a person in the transcribed portion of the Papers can be found with the search [persName="XXX"|rs="XXX"] in CQP syntax, where XXX is their project ID (case-sensitive); see the Text search page. Some revision of personography and edition files will continue. We are considering how best to present the many relationships between persons that are encoded in the personography but not shown here.
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Abdy (née Brebner-Gordon), Mary
Abington (née Barton), Frances
Acland, John Dyke
Acland, Thomas Dyke
- Dates: 29 March 1787 – 22 July 1871
- Aka: Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 10th Baronet
- VIAF; ODNB; Wikipedia
- Project ID: TDAcl
Adair, […]
- Dates: ? – ?
- Aka: Mr Adair
- Project ID: MrAda
Adair, James
- Dates: ? – ?
- Project ID: JAd
Adam, […]
- Dates: ? – ?
- Aka: The Adam Family
- Project ID: Adams
Adam, Robert
Addington, Henry
Addison, Joseph
Adolphus Frederick, Prin
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Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
POPE, ALEXANDER (1688–1744), poet, son of Alexander Pope, by his wife Edith, daughter of William Turner of York, was born in Lombard Street, London, on 21 May 1688. Pope's paternal grandfather is supposed to have been Alexander Pope, rector of Thruxton, Hampshire (instituted 1 May 1630–1; information from the Winchester bishop's register, communicated by Mr. J. C. Smith, of Somerset House), who died in 1645. The poet's father, according to his epitaph, was seventy-five at his death, 23 Oct. 1717, and therefore born in 1641 or 1642 (see also P. T.'s letter to Curll in Pope'sWorks, by Elwin and Courthope, vi. 423, where he is said to have been a posthumous son). According to Warton, he was a merchant at Lisbon, where he was converted to catholicism. He was afterwards a linendraper in Broad Street, London. A first wife, Magdalen, was buried 12 Aug. 1679 (register of St. Benet Fink); he had by her a daughter Magdalen, afterwards Mrs. Rackett; and in the Pangbourne register, Ambrose Staveley, the rector, records the burial of 'Alexander Pope, son of my brother-in law, Alexander Pope, merchant of London,' on 1 Sept. 1682 ( information from Mr. J. C. Smith). Pope's statement in a note in