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Martha Grey, Countess of Stamford

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United Kingdom

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Martha Grey, Countess of Stamford (née Martha Solomons; c. 1838 – 21 August 1916) was a South African-British aristocrat and school patron. She was born as the daughter of a freed slave and was referred to as “a lady of native Hottentot extraction” by the Victorian columnists.

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