The private palaces of London past and present (1908)
Chancellor, E. Beresford (Edwin Beresford), 1868-1937 · London : K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd. · leaf 422
outline of her life and career. La petite Fidget, as the Duchess of Portland used to call herwhen she was a young girl, was born at York, on October 2, 1720. She wasthe fourth child and elder daughter of Matthew Robinson and his wife,who had been a Miss Drake of the Drakes of Ash, in Devonshire.… … UJ < (3w z< I-o Q. uf CO o X Z< I- ocOa. PORTMAN HOUSE 325 recently in connection with the famous Velasquez Venus that formerly-hung there. It is interesting to know that Sterne married a member ofthis family, in the person of Elizabeth a step-niece of Matthew Robinson ;and therefore, if…
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