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unusual facts about Michael Lort


Michael Lort

Some of his manuscript lives were used by Alexander Chalmers in his ‘Biographical Dictionary.’ James Granger obtained his aid in his portrait-dictionary, he assisted John Nichols in the Gentleman's Magazine and in other undertakings, and he contributed to Archæologia.


Benjamin Ferrers

This picture was owned by Dr. Lort of Cambridge, who gave it to the Earl of Hardwicke, and at the 5th Earl of Hardwicke's 1888 sale of pictures at Wimpole Hall it was bought by the National Portrait Gallery.


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