| 词条 | Abigail Gawthern |
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| name = Abigail Gawthern | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = Abigail Frost | birth_date = 7 July 1757 | birth_place = Prob. Nottingham | death_date = {{d-da|7 January 1822|7 July 1757}} | death_place = Low Pavement, Nottingham | death_cause = | residence = Low Pavement, Nottingham | other_names = | known_for = her diary[1] | education = | employer = | occupation = | spouse = Francis Gawthern | children = two surviving | parents = | relatives = | signature = | website = | footnotes = | nationality = United Kingdom }} Abigail Gawthern (7 July 1757 – 7 January 1822) was a British diarist and lead manufacturer. LifeGawthern was probably born in Nottingham. Her parents were Ann and Thomas Frost. She was named "Abigail Anna" after her father's mother. This was opportune as the Frosts were to inherit a substantial bequest from her grandmother's brother Thomas Secker. Secker had been the Archbishop of Canterbury. After Secker died his will was disputed by Thomas Frost and he managed to persuade the court that £11,000 intended for charity should be added to an existing legitimate bequest to his family.[2] From an early age Gawthern kept a diary.[2] In 1791 Gawthern, husband died. She took control of the family's white lead business and its money and property. She continued to live in their substantial house at 26 Low Pavement in Nottingham. When her parents died in 1801 she received another large inheritance.[3] The business continued and her son briefly led the business until it folded in 1808 due to more efficient methods of production being developed.[2] Gawthern is remembered because in the early 1800s she to copied her diaries into a single volume that in time would document Nottingham's history for the period 1751–1810.[1] The diaries show how the professional classes lived at that time. In her own street was the home of the "Ladies Assembly" which was run by ladies but which was open to both genders but not the working class.[4] Gawthern died at her home in Low Pavement in 1822. A son, Francis, and a daughter, Anna, survived her.[3] References1. ^1 {{cite book|author=Abigail Gawthern|title=The Diary of Abigail Gawthern of Nottingham, 1751-1810|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FvPOrQEACAAJ|year=1980|publisher=Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire|isbn=978-0-902719-06-4}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Gawthern, Abigail}}2. ^1 2 Adrian Henstock, ‘Gawthern , Abigail Anna (1757–1822)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 8 May 2017 3. ^1 {{cite book|author=Amanda Vickery|title=The Gentleman's Daughter|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G7C4NRPbK3AC&pg=RA7-PT168|date=11 August 2003|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-17721-3|pages=7–}} 4. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.nottinghampost.com/city-s-georgians-let-hair/story-27596460-detail/story.html|title=How did Georgian Nottingham let its hair down?|date=2015-08-13|work=Nottingham Post|access-date=2017-05-08|language=en}} 4 : 1757 births|1822 deaths|People from Nottingham|Industrialists |
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