Mary Sharp
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Mary Sharp (1778–1812),{{cite web |url=http://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=15926&p=0 |title=Timeline of Events Leading up to the Abolition of the Slave Trade |accessdate=2015-02-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150227195958/http://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=15926&p=0 |archive-date=2015-02-27 |url-status=dead }} also called Mary Lloyd-Baker or Mary Lloyd Baker, was a niece of the British abolitionist Granville Sharp (1735 – 1813). Mary Sharp herself was an ardent abolitionist, active in campaigns to abolish the Atlantic slave trade.{{cite web|url=https://musingwithclio.wordpress.com/tag/feminism/ |title=The Progress of Events~January 1864~24th to 28th |accessdate=2015-02-27}}
She married Thomas John Lloyd Baker of Uley, Gloucestershire in 1800. After her death, Baker remarried and built Hardwicke Court.{{Cite web|url=https://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/bloomfield_letters/HTML/people.html#LloydBakerMary|title=Index of People|date=2009-09-01|website=www.rc.umd.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-09-13}}
Places
Mary Sharp College in Winchester, Tennessee, was named for her.
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External links
- [https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw05163/The-Sharp-Family Portrait of the Sharp family at the National Portrait Gallery]
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