Ann Northey ca.1662-1743

Ann NORTHEY ca.1662-1743

Northey's bookplate in its reworked state (British Museum Franks Collection *465)

Biographical Note

Daughter of John Jolliffe, a wealthy London merchant and MP. In 1687 she married Edward Northey (1652-1723), later attorney-general, knighted in 1702; they had 5 children, and she outlived him by 20 years.

Books

Northey used an engraved armorial bookplate dated 1703, on which she is described as "wife of Sr. Edward Northey Knight"; it exists in two variant states, with some of the heraldry reworked (Franks *387/*465). The extent and disposition of her library are not known; in his will, her husband left her life interests in various properties and "glasses prints pictures or books"; she was also to have use of "the prints of the Battles of Alexander in my house at Epsom".

Sources

• Will of Sir Edward Northey, The National Archives PROB 11/592/404.
• John Jolliffe, Wikipedia.
• Gambier Howe, E. R. J. Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum. London, 1903.
• Handley, Stuart. "Northey, Sir Edward (1652–1723), lawyer and politician." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.