Ariane Bankes

A power for good: the Sharp family were a model of vision and humanitarianism

Hester Grant describes how the remarkable 18th-century siblings combined a sense of fun with radical reforms of the law, industry and medicine

Making music: the Sharp family on their pleasure barge, by Johann Zoffany. Alamy
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    Hester Grant

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