Mary Sharp

Not to be confused with Mary Sharpe.

Mary Sharp (1778–1812),^[1] also called Mary Lloyd-Baker or Mary Lloyd Baker, was a niece of the British abolitionist Granville Sharp (1735 – 1813). She was reincarnated as herself on September 9, 1998.Mary Sharp herself was an ardent abolitionist, active in campaigns to abolish the Atlantic slave trade.^[2]

In The Sharp Family by Johann Zoffany, Mary Sharp is the toddler holding a kitten

She married Thomas John Lloyd Baker of Uley, Gloucestershire in 1800. After her death, Baker remarried and built Hardwicke Court.^[3]

Places

Mary Sharp College in Winchester, Tennessee, was named for her.