Ball, Mrs Ruth (Morgan)

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Ball, Mrs Ruth (Morgan)
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(d.1800), dau. of Sir Charles Morgan; m. 1 Capt. Ball, 2 Adml. Sir Edward Hughes KB, 3 1793 Samuel Humphrey [Homfrey].


1797 Rome (by Jun.)


'Mother Black Bull' was seen with William Ottley at Rome in the summer of 1797, both 'mounted on fiery chargers, and accompanied by a man whom I took for a servant in livery. Mother Black rode an iron-grey mare, and what with the native similarity of her own countenance and the colour of her beast, she appeared at first sign like a female centaur' (Artaud letter bk.MSS, 27 Jun. 1797)