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[add comment] [edit] page instability [7 August 2014]saving text She was the "eldest daughter of Serjeant Leeds, esquire, of Caxton, in Cambridgeshire, a lady about his own age, of considerable beauty, and great accomplishments, to whom he was united in marriage on the 25th April, 1758. She possessed a most amiable disposition, united to a highly cultivated mind: her education had been suitable to her father's rank. But though she moved in rather a gay circle, it was evident that, both in her dress and manners, she preferred neatness and elegance to splendour and show. She was eminently pious, and had evidently partaken largely of that noble spirit which formed so striking a feature in the character of [her husband, the prisoner reformer John] Howard, that personal gratifications of ever kind ought most cheerfully to be relinquished, when they in any way retard or diminish the means of our usefulness."
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