Anne Newport, Baroness Torrington (? – 1735) was an eighteenth-century aristocrat and social reformer.
She was the daughter of Robert Pierrepont and Anne Murray.
She was the third wife of
Thomas Newport, Baron Torrington, a
barrister
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and
Lord of the Treasury. They married on 8 July 1709, and made their home at
Richmond House in Twickenham.
Anne would continue to live after her husband died in 1719. She was a cousin of noted woman of letters
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.
On 14 April 1730, along with her friend,
Frances Byron,
she was one of the signatories to the
Ladies' Petition for the Establishment of a Foundling Hospital, which would be presented by
Thomas Coram
Sea captain, Captain Thomas Coram ( – 29 March 1751) was an English sea captain and philanthropist who created the London Foundling Hospital in Lamb's Conduit Fields, Bloomsbury, to look after abandoned children on the streets of London. It is ...
to
King George II in 1735.
These ladies are now considered pioneers in demonstrating the 'Christian, virtuous and humanitarian aspects of such an endeavour and make it socially acceptable ...
ndone of the most fashionable charities of the day.
The extensive collection of fine art developed by the couple was inherited by Thomas' brother Lord Bradford.
It is now on display at Weston Park in
Shropshire
Shropshire (; abbreviated SalopAlso used officially as the name of the county from 1974–1980. The demonym for inhabitants of the county "Salopian" derives from this name.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West M ...
.
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References
British philanthropists
Torrington
British social reformers
1735 deaths