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Richard Shackleton's daughter from his second marriage, Mary, born in 1758, was to play the key role in documenting the family's life and its connections to Ballitore. Following her education at the school, Mary Shackleton traveled with her father to London where she met Edmund Burke and Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), the famous painter. In 1791, she married William Leadbeater (1763-1827), a small farmer and landowner who had attended her father's school. While managing the community postal service, Mary Leadbeater also wrote poetry in her spare time. In 1794, she published Extracts and Original Anecdotes for the Improvement of Youth, which essentially was an account of the local Quaker community.
Wikipedia: Mary Leadbeater (December 1758 – 27 June 1826) was an Irish author and diarist.
- Born in Ballitore, County Kildare, Ireland.
- Daughter of Richard Shackleton (1726–1792) by his second wife, Elizabeth Carleton, and granddaughter of Abraham Shackleton, schoolmaster of Edmund Burke. Her parents were Quakers.
Her literary studies were aided by Aldborough Wrightson, who had been educated at Ballitore school and had returned to die there.
In 1784 she travelled to London with her father and paid several visits to Burke’s town house, where she met Sir Joshua Reynolds and George Crabbe.
On her father’s death Mrs. Leadbeater received a tender letter of consolation from Burke.[2]
In 1794 published anonymously in Dublin Extracts and Original Anecdotes for the Improvement of Youth, which begins with "some account of the society of the people call Quakers", contains several poems on secular subjects, and concludes with "divine odes".
In 1808 she published Poems with a metrical version of her husband’s prose translation of Maffæus Vegio’s Thirteenth Book of the Æneid.
In 1811 she published Cottage Dialogues among the Irish Peasantry, of which four editions, with some alterations and additions, had appeared by 1813.
In 1822 she concluded this series with Cottage Biography, being a Collection of Lives of the Irish Peasantry.
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Mary Leadbetter's Timeline
| 1758 |
December 1758
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Ballitore, Athy, County Kildare, Ireland
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| 1826 |
June 27, 1826
Age 67
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