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Widmore Cottage, Bromley, Kent. - Are there any references to the diplomat Nathaniel Parker Forth in Houghton's papers relating to the French Revolution? Forth was sent to France in 1789 to assist flight of British subjects and French nobles.

Widmore Cottage, Bromley, Kent. - Sorry to hear of fire damage to Houghton's manuscripts but hopes he might notice something in looking through them. Nathaniel Parker Forth was detained in France after the rupture of the Peace of Amiens and died there in 1809; payments to him by the French Royal Family. Henfrey's grandmother, Forth's daughter, used to recount his exploits, including a tale of his having saved Marie Antoinette from the mob.