See also:ELIZABETH See also:- ROBINSON, EDWARD (1794–1863)
- ROBINSON, HENRY CRABB (1777–1867)
- ROBINSON, JOHN (1575–1625)
- ROBINSON, JOHN (1650-1723)
- ROBINSON, JOHN THOMAS ROMNEY (1792–1882)
- ROBINSON, MARY [" Perdita "] (1758–1800)
- ROBINSON, SIR JOHN BEVERLEY, BART
- ROBINSON, SIR JOSEPH BENJAMIN (1845– )
- ROBINSON, THEODORE (1852-1896)
ROBINSON See also:MONTAGU (1720-1800)
, See also:English See also:leader of society, was See also:born at See also:York on the 2nd of See also:October 1720
.
In 1742 she married See also:Charles See also:Montagu, See also:cousin of See also:Edward Wortley Montagu and son of the See also:earl of See also:Sandwich—a wealthy See also:man, considerably her See also:senior
.
Thanks to her, his Mayfair See also:house became the social centre of intellectual society in See also:London, and her breakfast parties and evening conversaziones gained for her from her admirers the See also:title of " The Madame du See also:Deffand of the English See also:capital." In other quarters the See also:term " See also:blue-See also:stocking " was applied to her guests
.
From her See also:husband, who died in 1775, she inherited a considerable See also:fortune and large estates, in the management of which she showed much ability
.
In 1781 she built Sandleford Priory, near See also:Newbury, and Montagu House, now 22 Portman Square, London, the latter from designs by See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Stuart
.
With the colliers in the See also:north she was extremely popular, and every May-See also:day she entertained the London See also:chimney-sweeps
.
She died on the 25th of See also:August 1800
.
There is an admirable portrait of her by See also:Reynolds
.
See See also:Elizabeth Montagu, the See also:Queen of the Blue Stockings: Her See also:Correspondence from 1720 to 1761, edited by E
.
J
.
Climenson (2 vols.,1906) ; and R
.
Huchon, Mrs Montagu and her See also:Friends, 1720–1800 (Eng. trans., 1907)
.
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