Lady Mary THRALE

1733 - 1802  (69 years)

• Name	Mary THRALE
  Prefix	Lady
  Birth	1733	St Albans, Hertfordshire, England
  Gender	Female
  Note	13 Feb 1776
  	Fanny Burney referred to Mary Thrale in a letter to Samuel Crisp saying … Lady Ladd; I ought to have begun with her. I beg her ladyship a thousand pardons–though if she knew My offence, I am sure I should not obtain one. She is own sister to Mr. Thrale. She is a tall and stout woman, has an air of mingled dignity and haughtiness, both of which wear off in conversation. She dresses very youthful and gaily, and attends to her person with no little complacency. She appears to me uncultivated in knowledge, though an adept in the manners of the world, And all that. She chooses to be much more lively than her brother; but liveliness sits as awkwardly upon her as her pink ribbons. In talking her over with Mrs Thrale who has a very proper regard for her, but who, I am sure, cannot be blind to her faults, she gave me another proof to those I have already of the uncontrolled freedom of speech which Dr. Johnson exercised to everybody, and which everybody receives quietly from him. Lady Ladd has been very handsome, but is now, I think, quite ugly–at least she has the sort of face I like not. She was a little while ago dressed in so showy a manner as to attract the doctor's notice, and when he had looked at her some time, he broke out aloud into this quotation: With patches, paint, and jewels on, Sure Phillis is not twenty-one But if at night you Phillis see, The dame at least is forty-three! I don't recollect the verses exactly, but such was their purport. "However," said Mrs. Thrale, "Lady Ladd took it very good- naturedly, and only said, 'I know enough of that forty-three? I don't desire to hear any more of it."
  Will	Died intestate  [1]
  Death	1802	Saint Michaels, St Albans, Hertfordshire, England
  Burial	31 Mar 1802	Warbleton, Sussex, England   [2]
  	The Parish Register entry in Warbleton, Sussex for the burial of Lady Ann Lade 31 March 1802 notes that she was brought from St. Albans
  Notes	It is speculated that she bore an illegitimate child for Colonel Sir Philip Jennings Clerke M.P. (died 1788) after the death of her husband Sir John Lade.
  Person ID	I85	UK Thrale family | Fairfolds and Hammonds Thrale branch, Marshalswick Thrale branch
  Last Modified	11 Jul 2024

  
  

  Father	Ralph THRALE, M.P.,   b. 1698, Offley, Hertfordshire, England d. 9 Apr 1758 (Age 60 years)
  Mother	Mary DABBINS   d. Abt 1760
  Family ID	F38	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Baronet Sir John LADE, M.P.,   b. Abt 1690   d. 21 Apr 1759 (Age 69 years)
  Marriage	27 May 1756
  Children	1. Baronet Sir John LADE,   b. 1 Aug 1759   d. Abt 1838 (Age 78 years) m. Lady Letitia DERBY (1787)
  Family ID	F49	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Jul 2024

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 1733 - St Albans, Hertfordshire, England Death - 1802 - Saint Michaels, St Albans, Hertfordshire, England Burial - 31 Mar 1802 - Warbleton, Sussex, England  = Link to Google Earth
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• Sources

  [S2] Richard William Thrale, A New Thraliana, (Falconer Press, St Albans.), 69. [S34] Parish Register, Warbleton, Sussex.