Thomas Graves Law [SEP] date of birth
Thomas Graves Law
Thomas Graves Law (1836–1904) was an English Oratorian priest, and later in life a historian and bibliographer.
Life.
He was a grandson of Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough. Born on 4 December 1836 at Yeovilton in Somerset, Law was third son and fourth of eight surviving children of William Towry Law (1809–1886), Lord Ellenborough's youngest son, by his first wife, Augusta Champagné (died 1844), fourth daughter of Thomas North Graves, 2nd Baron Graves. The
home at Blickling. A lack of parish records from the period has made it impossible to establish Anne's date of birth. Contemporary evidence is contradictory, with several dates having been put forward by various historians. An Italian, writing in 1600, suggested that she had been born in 1499, while Sir Thomas More's son-in-law, William Roper, indicated a much later date of 1512. Her birth is widely accepted by scholars and historians as being most likely sometime between 1501 and 1507. As with Anne