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Correspondents

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There are 107 correspondents

Correspondent Name Dates

A

Agatha Drummond 		b. May 27, 1711 – d. June 18, 1795
Amabel Yorke Hume-Campbell b. Jan. 22, 1751 – d. March 4, 1833
Ann Dillingham Ord b. 1726 – d. 1808
Anne Donnellan b. 1702 – d. 1762
Anne Jesse Cholmley b. Feb. 28, 1747 – d. Feb. 11, 1812
Anne Pitt b. Oct. 27, 1712 – d. Feb. 9, 1781

B

Barbara Montagu 		b. 1722 – d. Aug. 19, 1765
Benjamin Stillingfleet b. 1702 – d. Dec. 15, 1771

C

Caroline Scott Best 		b. 1717 – d. April 29, 1782
Catharina Lydia Brydges, Duchess of Chandos b. Oct. 20, 1693 – d. Nov. 17, 1750
Catherine Bartlett West b. 1710 – d. 1757
Charles Lyttelton, Bishop of Carlisle b. 1714 – d. Dec. 22, 1768
Charles Robinson b. March 9, 1731 – d. March 31, 1807

D

David Garrick 		b. Feb. 19, 1717 – d. Jan. 20, 1779
Dorothea Gregory b. June 4, 1754 – d. July 7, 1830

E

Edmund Burke 		b. Jan. 1, 1729 – d. July 9, 1797
Edward Bridgen b. 1720 – d. July 28, 1787
Edward Jerningham b. 1737 – d. Nov. 17, 1812
Edward Montagu b. 1692 – d. May 12, 1776
Eliza Berkeley b. 1734 – d. 1800
Elizabeth Boscawen Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort b. May 28, 1747 – d. June 15, 1828
Elizabeth Carter b. Dec. 16, 1717 – d. Feb. 19, 1806
Elizabeth Charlton b. 1766 – d. May 7, 1817
Elizabeth Drake Robinson b. April 25, 1693 – d. May 1, 1746
Elizabeth Harcourt, Countess Harcourt b. 1746 – d. Jan. 25, 1826
Elizabeth Vesey b. 1715 – d. 1791
Eva Maria Garrick b. June 22, 1749 – d. Oct. 16, 1822

F

Frances Boscawen 		b. July 23, 1719 – d. Feb. 26, 1805
Frances Burney D'Arblay b. June 13, 1752 – d. Jan. 6, 1840
Frances Pulteney b. 1728 – d. 1782
Frances Reynolds b. May 10, 1729 – d. Nov. 1, 1807

G

George Colman the Elder 		b. 1732 – d. Aug. 14, 1794
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton b. Jan. 17, 1709 – d. Aug. 22, 1773
George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney b. May 3, 1737 – d. March 31, 1806
George Simon Harcourt, 2nd Earl Harcourt b. Aug. 1, 1736 – d. April 20, 1809
George Wilson b. Unknown – d. 0000
Gilbert West b. 1703 – d. March 26, 1756
Grace Freind Campbell b. 1748 – d. 1809
Grace Robinson Freind b. Jan. 5, 1718 – d. Dec. 26, 1776

H

Hannah More 		b. Feb. 2, 1745 – d. Sept. 7, 1833
Hans Moritz von Brühl b. Dec. 20, 1736 – d. June 9, 1809
Henry Home, Lord Kames b. 1696 – d. Dec. 27, 1782
Hester Thrale Piozzi b. Jan. 27, 1745 – d. May 2, 1821
Horace Walpole b. Sept. 24, 1717 – d. March 2, 1797
Hugh Blair b. April 7, 1718 – d. Dec. 27, 1800

J

James Beattie 		b. Oct. 24, 1735 – d. Aug. 18, 1803
James Boswell b. Oct. 29, 1740 – d. May 19, 1795
James Harris b. July 24, 1709 – d. Dec. 22, 1780
James Jonstone, 3rd Baronet b. April 14, 1730 – d. Sept. 19, 1783
James Pettit Andrews b. 1737 – d. Aug. 6, 1797
Jane Greenland Robinson b. April 28, 1727 – d. 1810
Jane Macartney b. 1742 – d. Feb. 28, 1828
Jane Smelt b. 1720 – d. Jan. 23, 1790
Jemima Campbell Yorke, Marchioness Grey b. Oct. 10, 1723 – d. Jan. 11, 1797
John Achard b. 1721 – d. 1770
John Burrows b. 1733 – d. 1786
John Burrows jr b. May 7, 1767 – d. 1817
John Dickenson b. 1757 – d. 1842
John Douglas b. July 14, 1721 – d. May 18, 1807
John Gregory b. June 3, 1724 – d. Feb. 9, 1773
John Stoole
John Wright b. Unknown – d. 0000
Joseph Emin b. 1726 – d. Aug. 2, 1809
Joshua Reynolds b. July 16, 1723 – d. Feb. 23, 1792

L

Leonard Smelt 		b. 1725 – d. Sept. 2, 1800
Lucy Fortescue Annesley b. Unknown – d. 0000
Lydia de Medalle b. Dec. 1, 1747 – d. 1783

M

Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, Duchess of Portland 		b. Feb. 11, 1715 – d. July 17, 1785
Mary Anstey b. 1717 – d. 1756
Mary Catherine Knollys, Viscountess Wallingford b. 1711 – d. Oct. 14, 1790
Mary Hamilton b. 1756 – d. May 25, 1816
Mary Richardson Robinson b. 1726 – d. April 8, 1789