- HUNTINGDON, COUNTESS OF
- a leader among the Whitfield Methodists, and foundress of a college for the "Connexion" at Cheshunt (1707-1791).
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
HUNTINGDON, COUNTESS OF
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