[2] Four years before the death of her grandfather, her father had been created a peer in his own right and summoned to the House of Lords as Baron Grey of Rolleston.

[3] The younger of two daughters, at a young age she had a desire for learning and, unusually for the time, she was educated privately alongside her brothers by their tutors.

After a 'long and severe course of study' she mastered 'a competent share of knowledge in the whole circle of Oriental learning'[5] collecting in her personal library a number of non-western language books.

She died aged 36 on 25 April 1712 at the home of her sister-in-law on Bond Street in London of consumption brought on, it was said, by her diligent studies and 'sedentary distemper'.

[1] Her uncle Roger North had set up a parochial library at Rougham in Norfolk and after her death he sorted out her affairs and added her books on oriental subjects and languages and her manuscripts to the collection.