Fanny Greville

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Thomas Rowlandson, Vauxhall Gardens, about 1784.

Frances Greville (née Macartney; c. 1724 – 1789) was an Anglo-Irish poet and celebrity in Georgian England.

She was born in Longford, Ireland in the mid-1720s; one of four daughters of James Macartney and Catherine (née Coote), daughter of the eminent judge Thomas Coote and niece of Richard Coote, 1st Earl of Bellomont.

By the early 1740s, she was in London, accompanying Sarah Lennox, Duchess of Richmond. Horace Walpole's poem The Beauties (1746) mentions her as "Fanny" among the most prominent women at court.

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