NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Hesketh, Harriet, Lady, 1733-1807 NRA: Hesketh Lady Harriet (1733-1807) nee Cowper cousin of William Cowper DNB: Hesketh [née Cowper], Harriet, Lady Hesketh (bap. 1733, d. 1807), cousin and intimate friend of the poet William Cowper LBT ID: HaHeske1807 VIAF ID: 76178957 LOC ID: nr92017446 | B/BAP: 1733-07-12 DIED: 1807-01-15 |
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The daughter Ashley Cowper (1701-1788) and cousin and friend of the poet William Cowper;
in 1761 she married Thomas Hesketh, afterwards baronet. | |
REFERENCES TO Lady Harriet Hesketh [née Cowper]: Robert Southey to William Wordsworth, 9 May 1835 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1:
¶ 5 |