A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Bland, Elizabeth
BLAND, ELIZABETH,
This lady was remarkable for her knowledge of the Hebrew language, and for her peculiar skill In writing it.
She was born about the period of the restoration of Charles the Second, and was daughter and heir of Mr. Robert Fisher, of Long-Acre. She married Mr. Nathaniel Bland, April 26th., 1681, who was then a linen-draper in London, and afterwards Lord of the Manor of Beeston, in Yorkshire. She had six children, who all died in infancy, excepting one son, named Joseph, and a daughter, Martha, who was married to Mr. George Moore, of Beeston. Mrs. Bland was taught Hebrew by Lord Van Helmont, which she understood so thoroughly as to be competent to the instruction in it of her son and daughter. Among the curiosities of the Royal Society is preserved a phylactery, in Hebrew, written by her, of which Dr. Grew has given a description in his account of rarities preserved in Gresham college.
By the two pedigrees of the family, printed in Mr. Thoresby's "Ducattts Leodiensis," pages 209 and 687, it seems she was living in 1712.