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Lady Dorothy Nevill Quotes

1826–1913 England

Lady Dorothy Fanny Nevill (née Walpole; 1 April 1826 – 24 March 1913) was an English memoirist, social and political hostess, conversationist, cultural philanthropist, horticulturist, and collector of plants, exotic animals, and art. Born into the aristocratic Walpole family, she married into the House of Nevill and was a founding member of the Conservative Primrose League.

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During my childhood at Islington the vicar of Puddletown was of the fox-hunting sort, quite different to the modern conception of a clergyman. He was popular enough with his parishioners, though I suspect he never saw half of them till they came up to be buried.

Under Five Reigns (1910)

My learned and accomplished friend, Dr. Jessopp, has written a most interesting history, entitled One Generation of a Norfolk House. It is more or less the history of the Walpole family in early times.

Amongst other pictures which I remember in our old home was the famous 'Rainbow Rubens,' now in the Wallace Collection, as well as a fine portrait of Cardinal Fleury and another of Pope—both presents from the Cardinal and the poet to Lord Walpole.

Reminiscences (1906)

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