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Lady Mary Thrale

Female 1733 - 1802  (69 years)


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  • Name Mary Thrale 
    Prefix Lady 
    Birth 1733  St Albans, Hertfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Will Died intestate  [1
    Death 1802  Saint Michaels, St Albans, Hertfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial 31 Mar 1802  Warbleton, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [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 
    • In The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay, Volume 1, Fanny Burney wrote…

      "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.'"
    Person ID I85  UK Thrale family
    Last Modified 28 Apr 2010 

    Father Ralph Thrale, M.P.,   b. 1698, Offley, Hertfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 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) 
    Alt. Marriage Aft 27 May 1756  [3
    Marriage Jun 1756  [4
    Children 
     1. Baronet Sir John Lade,   b. 1 Aug 1759   d. Abt 1838 (Age 78 years)
    Family ID F49  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 4 Jul 2005 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1733 - St Albans, Hertfordshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 1802 - Saint Michaels, St Albans, Hertfordshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - 31 Mar 1802 - Warbleton, Sussex, England Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S2] Richard William Thrale, A New Thraliana, ((St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England, Falconer Press, 1973)), 69 (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S34] Parish Register, Warbleton, Sussex (Reliability: 3).

    3. [S13] Faculty Office Marriage Licence Allegations 1701-1850, Order 0052305 (Reliability: 3).

    4. [S16] Gentleman's Magazine, June 1756 (Reliability: 3).