Anna Larpent

Anna Larpent ( Porter) (4 April 1758 – 4 March 1832) was a British diarist. She was the de facto assistant Examiner of Plays and her seventeen volume diaries document 47 years of Georgian life. Early life Larpent was born in Pera in Turkey 1758 where her father was a British diplomat. She was the eldest of three surviving children born to Clarissa Catherine de Hochepied and James Porter, the British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. Her younger brother, Lt.-Gen. George Porter, was a Whig MP who married Henrietta Grosvenor (widow of Richard Grosvenor, 1st Earl Grosvenor and mother of the 1st Marquess Grosvenor). Her father was the son of a Captain of Horse named La Roche who had adopted the name of Porter. Her maternal grandparents were Anna Margaretha Boelema and Elbert de Hochepied, 2nd Baron de Hochepied, the Dutch Ambassador to Constantinople). Anna started her diary in 1773 and continued it in seventeen volumes over fifty-seven years to 1830.