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Mary Sharp
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<p>Mary Sharp (1778–1812), also called Mary Lloyd-Baker or Mary Lloyd Baker, was a niece of the British <a href="/facts/Abolitionist/LDD5kEAc">abolitionist</a> <a href="/facts/Granville_Sharp/qEJpHbML">Granville Sharp</a> (1735 – 1813). Mary Sharp herself was an ardent abolitionist, active in campaigns to abolish the <a href="/facts/Atlantic_slave_trade/No8T5Jhl">Atlantic slave trade</a>. </p><p>She married Thomas John Lloyd Baker of <a href="/facts/Uley/MdojrolG">Uley</a>, <a href="/facts/Gloucestershire/oU1K8E4K">Gloucestershire</a> in 1800. After her death, Baker remarried and built <a href="/facts/Hardwicke_Court/2S2qyJMC">Hardwicke Court</a>. </p>