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unusual facts about Sir Herbert Croft, 5th Baronet


Martha Ray

The events surrounding her murder were used in the popular 1780 novel Love and Madness by Herbert Croft.


Sir Herbert Croft, 5th Baronet

This book, which passed through seven editions, narrates the passion of the soldier-turned-clergyman James Hackman for Martha Ray, mistress of the earl of Sandwich, who was shot by her lover as she was leaving Covent Garden in 1779 (see the Case and Memoirs of the late Rev. Mr James Hackman, 1779).


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