She belonged to the established Church of Scotland
(that is, Presbyterian). She was not, however, an orthodox Calvinist; she had enough belief to combat the atheism of her friend David Hume
, but not such...
Family and Intimate relationships
Lady Anne Barnard
Lady Anne's sister Margaret
(later Burges) made a reluctant marriage to Alexander Fordyce
(brother to the preacher and author Dr James Fordyce
) when she was eighteen. He had been born in Aberdeen but found...
Family and Intimate relationships
Elizabeth Isabella Spence
EIS
's uncles, her mother's brothers, included David Fordyce
, an academic and early Scottish Enlightenment figure (who died before she was born), Rev Dr James Fordyce
, author of the notorious Sermons to Young...
Timeline
15-21 June 1772: A series of London banking firms collapsed...
National or international item
15-21 June 1772
A series of London banking firms collapsed after the bank associated with Alexander Fordyce
stopped payment; ensuing panic brought the biggest stock-market crash since the South Sea Bubble burst in late 1720.
Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press, 1987.
93 and n2
15 July 1772: The East India Company, whose steady stream...
Building item
15 July 1772
The East India Company
, whose steady stream of wealth coming out of India had diminished in the face of famine and suppression of local industry, asked the Bank of England
for a bailout loan £400,000.
Dalrymple, William. “The original corporate raiders”. Guardian Weekly, 20 Mar. 2015, pp. 26-9.
