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Charles Jervas, Portrait of Harriet Pelham-Holles, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (d.1776). Credit: Sotheby’s, Wikimedia Commons.

Henrietta Pelham-Holles (nee Godolphin) was, the wife of British Statesman and Prime Minister Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne. They married in 1717 and had a happy marriage, though they did not have children. The Duchess suffered from poor health and, later in life, preferred to remain away from politics; however, she frequently provided her husband with advice. She died in 1776.

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Reed Browning, ‘Holles, Thomas Pelham-, duke of Newcastle upon Tyne and first duke of Newcastle under Lyme (1693–1768)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2011 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21801, accessed 23 Jan 2017].

John McBride (ca. 1650-1718) was Minister of the Presbyterian General Synod of Ulster and a religious controversialist.

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D. W. Hayton, ‘McBride, John (c.1650–1718)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/17361, accessed 14 June 2011].

Mary Shirley (nee Levinge) married Washington Shirley, the 2nd Earl Ferrers. She was the daughter of Mary Corbyn and the Rt. Hon. Sir Richard Levinge, 1st Baronet. From 25 July 1717, she was known as the Countess Ferrers. She and her husband had three children: Lady Elizabeth Shirley (1704-1731), Lady Selina Shirley (1707-1791), and Lady Mary Shirley (1712-1784). She died in 1740.

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‘Mary Levinge’, The Peerage http://thepeerage.com/p3906.htm#i39060 (accessed 7 February 2017).

‘Lineage of the Earl Ferrers’, Shirley Family Association http://www.shirleyassociation.com/NewShirleySite/NonMembers/England/earlferrerslineage.html (accessed 7 February 2017).

Thomas Tanner was the Bishop of St Asaph, an antiquary, and scholar. He was an associate of Arthur Charlett, another Sloane correspondent and Master of University College, Oxford. He left academic life at Oxford in 1698 to take up a clerical position at Norwich, which led to a career in the Church

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Richard Sharp, Tanner, Thomas (16741735), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26963, accessed 4 July 2013].

Philip Stanhope (1633-1714) was a courtier and politician. He retired to Bretby and spent part of his time in London.

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Stuart Handley, ‘Stanhope, Philip, second earl of Chesterfield (1633-1714)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford University Press, 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26253 [accessed 14 June 2011]).

Martin Lister was a physician and naturalist who was honored by being appointed second physician to the queen in 1710. He wrote and published several medical and natural history works, some of which appeared in Philosophical Transactions, as well as serving as vice-president of the Royal Society briefly in 1685-1686

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J. D. Woodley, Lister, Martin (bap. 1639, d. 1712), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/16763, accessed 11 May 2011].

Robert Sibbald was a physician and a geographer. He was physician to James VII.

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Charles W. J. Withers, Sibbald, Sir Robert (16411722), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, May 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25496, accessed 19 June 2013].

William Sherard (1659-1728) was a botanist and cataloguer. He worked for the Turkish Company at Smyrna where he collected botanical specimens and antiques.

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D. E. Allen, ‘Sherard, William (1659-1728)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford University Press, 2004, online edn, Jan 2008, http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25355 [accessed 24 June 2011]).