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- Mary, second daughter and co-heir of James Douglas, M.D., of Carlisle, third son of Sir William Douglas, bart., of Kilhead. She survived her husband and remarried (as his first wife) John Storer, M.D., F.R.S., a distinguished physician at Nottingham, whose full-length portrait is to be seen in Bromley House Library, Nottingham. She died 19 July, 1803, and was buried at Grantham. Dr. Storer, who was of Scotch descent, died 17 September, 1837, aged ninety. By her second husband she left issue, viz., the Rev. John Storer, M.A., rector of Hawkesworth, Notts, one of whose sons, the late George Storer, of Thoroton Hall, was for many years M.P. for South Notts.
Life with James Boswell: Boswell met her and her husband at Sir John Douglas' on October 6, 1762. He described her as a pretty, agreeable young creature.
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