Category: Bluestockings
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The Elizabeth Vesey’s of Lucan by Aoife Tierney
Elizabeth Vesey 1715-1791 Elizabeth Vesey was the daughter of Rt. Rev. Sir Thomas Vesey, 1st Bt. and Mary Muschamp. In 1731 at 16, she married William Handcock, (son of /William Handcock and Susan Warburton) who died in 1741. In 1746, she married her cousin, Agmondisham Vesey, (son of Rt. Hon.…