Mary Berry was an English non-fiction writer born in Kirkbridge, North Yorkshire. She is best known for her letters and journals, namely Social Life in England and France from the French Revolution, p
From a bust of Mary Berry created by Anne Seymour Damer
St Peter's Church, Petersham
Charles O'Hara
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General Charles O'Hara was a British Army officer who served in the Seven Years' War, American War of Independence and French Revolutionary Wars. During the American War of Independence, he served in
Mary Berry (writer, born 1763)
…Bowman and she wrote long afterwards that she had "suffered as people do" at sixteen "from what, wisely disapproved of, I resisted and dropped." General Charles O'Hara, governor of Gibraltar, had met Berry in 1784 in Italy, and was engaged to her before leaving England for Gibraltar in November 1795. Berry had been…
General O'Hara surrenders the sword of Lieutenant-General Cornwallis to Count de Rochambeau and General Washington. Anonymous engraving (ca. 1783)
O'Hara surrendering to Benjamin Lincoln on 19 October 1781