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Anna (Annie) Allnutt (1839–1860)
Anna (Annie) Brassey (1860–1887)

1839–87

Traveller and author. Famous for popular accounts of ocean voyages. Daughter of John and Elizabeth Allnutt. Married Thomas Brassey, Liberal politician and writer on naval affairs, in 1860. Became Lady Brassey when her husband was created Baron Brassey in 1886.

Source

ODNB

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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