Dorothy Clement

Dorothy Clement (c. 1715 – c. 1739) as daughter of a Darlington postmaster, she was the partner of Edward Walpole and mother of his four children, including Maria Walpole, who became Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh upon her marriage to Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh.

Hammond was christened in Durham Cathedral in 1692, and his father, John Clement (b.

[4] At the age of 15, Dorothy left Darlington to work in London, where she initially lodged in Drake Street, Red Lion Square.

[5] The earliest references to Dorothy Clement's time in London describe her "in the humble position of sitting on a Dust Cart... in all her rags and Dirt",[6] but all note her remarkable beauty.

Around 1730, she gained employment with a Mrs Rennie, variously described as a maker of children's coats, proprietor of a second-hand clothes shop in Pall Mall,[7] or a milliner in Covent Garden.