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Grace, Lady Gethin|1676|1697| Grace, Lady Gethin (born 1676 died 1697), learned lady, daughter of Sir George Norton of Abbot's Leigh, Somersetshire, was born in 1676, married Sir Richard Gethin, baronet, of Gethin Grott, Ireland, and died on 11 October 1697. She was buried at Hollingbourn, Kent, and a monument was erected to her in Westminster Abbey. A sermon was founded to be preached in the abbey upon Ash Wednesday in memory of her. A collection of papers found after her death was published in 1699 as 'Reliquiæ Gethinianæ;' a second edition appeared in 1700, and a third, to which a portrait was prefixed, in 1703. The last includes a copy of verses by Congreve, and to it is appended a funeral sermon by Peter Birch, published separately in 1700. The book is more creditable to the taste than to the knowledge of her executors. Many passages are from Bacon's 'Essays', copied in her commonplace book and mistaken for her original composition by several of her biographers.^{[DNB 1][DNB 2][DNB 3][DNB 4][DNB 5][1]}

References

1. [[Template:Cite DNB|vb=yes|author=Template:DNB LS|title=Gethin, Grace (DNB00)|work=Dictionary of National Biography|volume=21|pages=0|url=http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gethin,_Grace_(DNB00)]]

DNB references

These references are found in the DNB article referred to above.

1. Reliquiæ Gethinianæ, 1703
2. Ballard's Learned Ladies, 1775, pages 252–3
3. Noble's Granger, i. 280
4. Stanley's Memorials of Westminster Abbey
5. Collinson's Somersetshire, iii. 153.

External links

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