About Margaret Cecil, Lady Brown
Lived 1698 – 1782 (aged 83–84). Margaret Cecil, Lady Brown was a British composer.
Margaret Cecil, Lady Brown (1698 - 13 February 1782) was an English gentlewoman and sponsor of concerts who is best remembered for her enmity to the composer George Frideric Handel. The subject of their antagonism was taken up in poems of the period.
Margaret Cecil was born in 1698 to Robert Cecil and Elizabeth Meynell. Her father, who was ‘commonly called fat Cecil’, served as a member of parliament. Her mother was the heir of Meynell Langley. Her brother Charles Cecil was the Bishop of Bangor.
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English philanthropist
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Margaret Cecil, Lady Brown was born in 1698.
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Margaret Cecil, Lady Brown died on 13 February 1782.
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Margaret Cecil, Lady Brown was a composer.
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Margaret Cecil, Lady Brown was British.
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