English courtesan whose temperament attracted the sobriquet “Hellfire Davis”; in 1768 she married Alexander Nesbitt; among her lovers was Augustus John Hervey, afterwards third earl of Bristol.

REFERENCES TO Mary Nesbitt [née David]:

Eleanor Creevey to Thomas Creevey, 6 November 1805 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)