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Lady Dorothy Long ( - 1710)

Described in The Book of Benefactors to the Ashmolean Museum as "the pride and joy of her family and her sex." She "showed a deep interest in primitive religions and antiquities" as was a woman of piety (f. 6v; MacGregor, 4). She donated an ivory crozier-head to the Museum: it "remains in the collections, still prized although now recognized as twelfth-century work and as having no possible connection with the saint posited as its owner by the donor" (MacGregor, 4). Other Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_James_Long,_2nd_Baronet#Family - No wikipedia page for Dorothy but she is mentioned in the family section of Jame Long's wiki page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_James_Long,_5th_Baronet - "On the death of his grandmother Lady Dorothy Long in 1710, [Sir James Long, 5th Baronet] inherited the Draycot Estate together with Athelhampton Manor, other land in Wiltshire and Dorset, and an estate near Ripon in Yorkshire." Relevant locations: Lived at or near Draycot Cerne, Wiltshire
 Relationships: Lady Dorothy Long was a wife of Sir James Long (1617-22 Jan 1692)

 Linked manuscript items: as Mentions or references - "The Book of Benefactors (1683-1766)," Ashmolean Library AMS 2 (The Book of Benefactors), Ashmolean Museum
 Linked print sources: as Mentions or references - Ashmolean Museum Oxford: Manuscript Catalogues of the Early Museum Collections, 1683-1886 (Part I).
 References in Documents:
MS Book of Benefactors (MacGregor, ed.)

The most noble of ladies, Dorothy wife of that most generous and learned of men, Sir James Long, Bart., of Draycot Cerne in the county of Wiltshire, was the pride and joy of her family and her sex, and showed a deep interest in primitive religions and antiquities. Her piety and great good will to this University led her to give a carved ivory crozier which had belonged to Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, to this museum to be placed with the other treasures.