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Great Britain - History - 18th Century
Mary’s claim for custody of younger children
Lyon, William: supports Mary in case against Stoney
Lyttelton, ThomasBaron
Macaulay, Catharine
Macbeth, King of Scots
Maddison, Colonel George
Madras Courier
Magra, Captain Perkins
Mahon, Ann (Mary’s maidservant)
Mahon, Thomas
Malcolm II , King of Scots
Mann, Sir Horace
Mansfield, William Murrayt Earl of
Markham, Jane
Markham, Revd Samuel
marriage: in Georgian England ; and property rights; separation and divorce
Marriage Act (1753)
Married Women’s Property Act (1870)
Mary Queen of Scots
Mason, William
Massingberd, Anne ( later Maxwell)
Massingberd, Charles
Massingberd, William Burrell
Masson, Francis
Matra, James Mario ( born Magra)
Matrimonial Causes Act (1857)
Maxwell, Anne see Massingberd, Anne
Maxwell, Revd William
Melbourne, Peniston Lamb, Baron ( later Viscount), and Elizabeth, Lady
Menzies, James
Meredith, Mary (Countess of Ferrers)
Milbanke, Judith
Mingay, James
Mir Kasim, Nawab
Montagu, Edward
Montagu, Elizabeth
More, Hannah
Morgan, Mary: as Mary’s confidante and friend; appointed Mary’s maid; background and character; notices Stoney’s abuse of Mary ; and Mary’s taking laudanum; fears for Mary’s life; helps Mary escape; Stoney disparages; acts as Mary’s secretary; testifies for Mary in case against Stoney; accompanies Mary on flight from Stoney; on Farrer’s taking Mary’s case; in Gillray cartoon; and Stoney’s evictions of estate staff; and Mary’s intimidation fears; and Mary’s abduction; on Mary’s escape from Stoney; fever ; injured in coach accident; moves to Stourfield House; death
Morning Chronicle
Morning Herald
Morning Post
Morrow, Robert
Mountstuart, Charlotte, Lady ( née Windsor)
Mountstuart, John, Baron ( later 4th Earl of Bute)
Newcastle Chronicle
Newcastle Courant
Newcastle Journal
Newcastle upon Tyne: character; Stoney contests and wins Parliamentary seat for; Stoney loses Parliamentary seat (1784)
Newton, Catherine (Hannah’s mother)
Newton, Hannah see Stoney, Hannah
Newton, Matthew (Hannah’s cousin)
Newton, Samuel (Hannah’s uncle)
Newton, William (Hannah’s father)
Norfolk, Charles Howardh Duke of ( earlier Earl of Surrey)
North, Frederick, Lord ( later 2nd Earl of Guilford )
Northumberland, Elizabeth, Duchess of ( née Seymour)
Norton, Caroline
Ogilvy, Mrs (of Chelsea)
Ord, Eleanor
Osborn, Sarah
Ossory see Upper Ossory
Paine, James
Paine, Thomas
Palgrave, William
Papendiek, Charlotte
Paris: conditions; Stoney and Mary take abducted Anna to; Stoney and Mary leave
Parish, Elizabeth ( née Planta): as Mary’s governess; and Mary’s botanical interests; warns Mary against marrying Strathmore; congratulates Mary on The Siege of Jerusalem ; contracts fever; as governess to Mary’s children ; Mary confides passion for James Graham; Mary dismisses from employ; and Mary’s relations with Gray; Anna Maria placed in care of
Parkes, Ann
Parminter, Jane
Paterson, William: Mary meets and finances; botanical expeditions and collections in South Africa ; debts; recognition; serves in British fleet against Dutch; as lieutenant-governor of New South Wales; serves in army in India; death; A Narrative of Four Journeys into the Country of the Hottentots and Caffraria
Peacock, Francis
Peacock, George
Peele, Joshua
Pennant, Thomas
Penneck, Richard
Pigg, William
Pitt, Thomas
Pitt, William, the Younger
Planta family
Planta Revd Andreas
Planta, (Ann) Eliza see Stephens, (Ann) Eliza
Planta, Elizabeth see Parish, Elizabeth
Planta, Frederica
Planta, Joseph
Polwhele, Richard
Portland, Margaret, Duchess of
Portugal: Strathmore visits
Prehn, Lieut.-Colonel Hendrik
Prevot, Mark
Price, Colonel Barrington
Price, Lady Maria Jane ( née Bowes; Mary’s daughter): birth; upbringing; in mourning for father; character; and Stoney’s standing for Parliament ; relations with mother; removed from mother and sent to school; marriage prospects; in Downman portrait ;