Mrs Gretton when Mrs Edwards

1 portrait by John Jones

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Mrs Gretton when Mrs Edwards

by John Jones, after William Lawranson
mezzotint, published 1780
Reference Collection
NPG D2502

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  • John Jones (circa 1745-1797), Engraver and printseller. Artist or producer associated with 93 portraits.
  • William Lawranson (baptised 1742-after 1782), Painter and engraver. Artist or producer associated with 15 portraits.

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Anti-Catholic mob led by Lord George Gordon marches on Parliament to protest against the Catholic Relief Act, leading to the outbreak of the Gordon Riots in London. Six days of rioting are ended by the intervention of troops, with 285 people shot dead.
Dunning's Motion in Parliament attacks the influence of the crown, suggesting that it has increased and ought to be diminished.

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Royal Academy moves to Somerset House on The Strand, London.
Mrs E. Johnson's British Gazette and Sunday Monitor, the first Sunday newspaper in Britain, begins publication.
Potter Josiah Wedgwood invents the pyrometer; a device used for measuring high temperatures.

International

American War of Independence: British troops under Charles Cornwallis defeat American army under Horatio Gates at Camden, South Carolina. The capture of British army officer and spy John André yields proof that US general Benedict Arnold is in the pay of the British. André is executed in as a spy.
Second Anglo-Mysore War in India between Hyder Ali and the East India Company.
Bolshoi Theatre of opera and ballet is founded in Moscow.

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Vice Admiral Mike Gretton

25 May 2020, 12:42

Despite the Mrs below the Portrait, Miss Ann Edwards married my ancestor John Gretton (1738-1829) at St Bartholomew the Great (Smithfields) on 9 February 1784. She was the daughter of the Rector of St Bartholomew's from 1768 to 1814), Owen Perrott Edward(e)s. I have the on line marriage registration.
William Gretton, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, is depicted in the cartoon on your website.