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3 unusual facts about Lady Anne Barnard


Anton Anreith

Unfortunately, this was rebuilt in 1820, along with Anreith's turret, now known only from drawings by Lady Anne Barnard and John Barrow.

Lady Anne Barnard

A chamber in the Castle of Good Hope is known as "Lady Anne Barnard's Ballroom"; a road in the suburb of Newlands, where the Barnards lived, is named "Lady Anne Avenue" and a carved sculpture of her is displayed in the foyer of the civic centre in the neighbouring suburb of Claremont.

Her five-year residence in Cape Town, South Africa, although brief, had a significant impact on the cultural and social life of the time.



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