A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Norton, Lady Frances
NORTON, LADY FRANCES,
Was descended from the Frekes of Dorsetshire, and married Sir George Norton, of Somersetshire, by whom she had three children. On the death of her daughter, who had married Sir Richard Gethin, she wrote "The Applause of Virtue," and "Memento Mori, or Meditations on Death." She took for her second husband Colonel Ambrose Norton, and for her third Mr. Jones, and died in 1720, aged about seventy.