James Maury (1746–1840), merchant and American consul at Liverpool, 1790–1829, was TJ’s lifelong friend and regular correspondent, having been a classmate with TJ at the Albemarle County school of his father, the Reverend James Maury (Anne Fontaine Maury, ed., Intimate Virginiana: A Century of Maury Travels by Land and Sea [1941], 1–21, 319).

Frederick Augustus, duke of york and Albany and the second son of George III, resigned as commander-in-chief of the British army when it was revealed that his mistress, Mary Anne Clarke, had taken money in exchange for promises to use her influence over the duke to obtain military promotions (DNB description begins Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee, eds., Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1901, 22 vols. description ends ). that good man, Maury’s recently deceased brother Matthew Maury, succeeded his father as rector of Fredericksville Parish in Albemarle County, taught a school attended by TJ’s nephew Dabney Carr, officiated at Monticello marriages and funerals, and received an annual contribution from TJ (Woods, Albemarle description begins Edgar Woods, Albemarle County in Virginia, 1901, repr. 1991 description ends , 268–9; William Meade, Old Churches, Ministers, and Families of Virginia [1857], 2:44; MB description begins James A. Bear Jr. and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends ).