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Barbara Lindley (1830–1867)
Barbara Thompson (1867–1927)

1830–1927

Younger daughter of John Lindley. Assisted her father in the illustration of some of his later works. Married Edmund Thompson, fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge, and rector of Clipston, Northamptonshire, in 1867.

Sources

DNB s.v. Lindley, John

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.co.uk, accessed 14 August 2018)

London, England, Church of England births and baptisms, 1813–1917 (Ancestry.co.uk, accessed 15 August 2018)

Pine 1972.

Bibliography

DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.

Pine, L. G. 1972. The new extinct peerage 1884–1971: containing extinct, abeyant, dormant & suspended peerages with genealogies and arms. London: Heraldry Today.

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