Mary Berry (writer)

Mary Berry (16 March 1763 – 21 November 1852) was an English author, born in Kirkbridge, North Yorkshire.
Life
Berry was born in Kirkbridge, Yorkshire. Her younger sister, Agnes, was born there fourteen months afterwards, on 29 May 1764, and they were constantly together for nearly eighty-eight years. Their father, Robert Berry, was the nephew of a Scotch merchant, named Ferguson, who had thrived in trade in London, and by middle life had realised £300,000, besides purchasing a considerable estate at Raith in Fife.
Robert, elder of the two sons of Ferguson's sister, entered his uncle's counting-house in Broad Street, Austin Friars. In 1762 he married a distant cousin, a Miss Seaton. His wife, after the birth of the two children, Mary and Agnes, died in 1767, aged 23, in childbirth of a third who also died. Meanwhile Robert's younger brother, William, brought up in a mercantile house, had ingratiated himself with his uncle. Besides this, he had married...