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▪ English society hostessborn May 21, 1746, Londondied May 30, 1840, Londonsociety hostess whose “conversation parties” were attended by leading figures from the worlds of politics and letters. She is supposed to have been the original of “Lady Bellair” in British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli's (Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl Of Beaconsfield, Viscount Hughenden Of Hughenden) novel Henrietta Temple and of “Mrs. Leo Hunter” in Charles Dickens' (Dickens, Charles) Pickwick Papers.
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