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Mary Alcock [née Cumberland] (ca. 1742–1798) was a poet essayist and philanthropist.Mary was the youngest child of Joanna Bentley (1704/5–1775) and Bishop Denison Cumberland (1705/6–1774). Richard Bentley classicist and master of Trinity College Cambridge was her maternal grandfather and Richard Cumberland (1732–1811) playwright was her brother.She spent her childhood in Stanwick Northamptonshire and Fulham.