Frances Crewe, Lady Crewe

Frances Anne Crewe, Lady Crewe (née Greville; November 1748 – 23 December 1818), was the daughter of

William Pitt the younger

took office, she famously remarked that he "could do what he pleased during the holidays, but it would only be a mince-pie administration" (in other words it would barely last past Christmas; as it turned out she was wrong in her prediction, but virtually everyone in the political world agreed with her).

In 1766, Frances married

Sir Joshua Reynolds, and Canning were frequent visitors. She was also on friendly terms with Charles Burney and Sarah Burney and Hester Thrale

.

In May 1784 when Charles James Fox, after an epic battle, was finally confirmed as MP for Westminster, Frances Crewe hosted a party to celebrate, where all the guests were asked to wear Fox's chosen colours, blue and buff. The Prince of Wales gave a toast True blue and Mrs. Crewe. She famously replied True blue and all of you.

Sheridan dedicated the

School for Scandal to her, and some lines addressed to her by Fox were printed at the Strawberry Hill Press in 1775. Three portraits by Reynolds have been engraved, in one of which she appears with her brother as Hebe and Cupid. She died on 23 December 1818.^[1]

Notes

^ ^a ^b Rigg 1888, p. 90.
^ Kilburn, Matthew. "Mince-pie administration (act. 1783–1784)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press.

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rigg, James McMullen (1888). "Crewe, Frances Anne". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 13. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 90. The entry cites:
- Hinchliffe's Barthomley, pp. 306–10
- D'Arblay's Memoirs
- Piozzi's Autobiography, 2nd ed.
- Warburton's Memoirs of Horace Walpole, ii. 223
Michael Allen (Editor and Foreword): An English Lady in Paris: the diary of Frances Anne Crewe, 1786, St Leonards, U.K.: Oxford-Stockley Publications, 2006,
ISBN 0-9552490-0-7

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[FOOTNOTERigg188890-1] Rigg 1888, p. 90.

[2] Kilburn, Matthew. "Mince-pie administration (act. 1783–1784)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press.

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