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Person’s Profile

Priscilla Lydia Sellon (1821-1876)

Description

founder of the Society of Sisters of Mercy of the Holy Trinity, Devonport

Biography

CMY gave regular sums to her from 1853 but was disappointed when she came to Hursley to see her Sisters off to Honolulu. She was known as Lydia. [ODNB]