Mr Jacob More, the village schoolmaster of Lord Bottelourt's foundation - school at Stapleton, near Bristol, probably felt no little disappointment when his wife presented him with a fourth daughter on the 2nd of February 1745; but this same daughter was destined to become world - famous, and to bring countless visitors into the neighbourhood of Bristol, both during her life and after her death. At eight years old we see little Hannah the happy possessor of a long-coveted "whole quire of writing-paper," which it had not needed much coaxing for her to obtain from her observant mother.
