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| NAME AUTHORITIES: DNB: Nesbitt [née Davis], Mary (1742/3–1825), courtesan and adventuress LBT ID: MaNesbi1825 | B/BAP: 1742 DIED: 1825 |
| SOURCES: DNB | |
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. | |
