Jane "Jenny" Greg in the 1790s was an Irish republican agitator with connections to radical political circles in England.
11 Facts About Jane Greg
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Jane Greg was the second of thirteen children born to Elizabeth and Thomas Jane Greg of Belfast.
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The son of a Scottish blacksmith, in the 1740s Thomas Jane Greg bought a small ship which carried provisions to the West Indies and returned with flaxseed.
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Jane Greg spent most of her adulthood in England in the society of her younger brother Samuel Greg.
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Possibly with her sister-in-law as a connection, Jane Greg was closely acquainted with a number of these figures, including John Horne Tooke of the London Corresponding Society and Roger O'Connor.
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Jane Greg shared McTier's abhorrence for the highly-restrictive model of education for the poor advanced by the conservative evangelical Hannah More.
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Jane Greg was reported to have been stopped and searched for United Irish propaganda upon her arrival in England.
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Samuel Jane Greg, who gave his sister refuge in Manchester, was anxious lest her friendship with Lady Londonderry "and her letters" bring suspicion upon him, as "the only Irish gentleman in the town".
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In 1800, after the crushing of the 1798 Rebellion, Jane Greg returned to Belfast with the children of Roger O'Connor who had been visiting their father, then imprisoned at Fort George, Scotland.
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Jane Greg was in the company of George Smith, a radical London barrister, who had defended both the O'Connor brothers in their trials for sedition.
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Jane Greg lived once more with her brother Samuel and his wife Hannah Greg at Quarry Bank Mill in Cheshire.