Hannah Axford [née Lightfoot] [The Fair Quaker]

(1785-1851)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Lightfoot, Hannah, b. 1730 DNB: Lightfoot [married name Axford], Hannah (b. 1730, d. in or after 1758), supposed first wife of George III LBT ID: HaAxfor1851 VIAF ID: 16256182 LOC ID: n86134403	B/BAP: 1785 DIED: 1851
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
The supposed first wife of George III, is a story repeated in contemporary newspapers and embellished in the nineteenth century.
REFERENCES TO Hannah Axford [née Lightfoot] [The Fair Quaker]: Anonymous correspondent to Cyrus Redding, [August 1844?] in Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter V. Found 2: ¶ 105 ¶ 106