Richard Gay

Richard Gay, of Haycombe, was the cousin of Anne Steele and her brother William, who died in 1736 at the age of nineteen. See John Broome, A Bruised Reed: The Life and Times of Anne Steele. (Harpenden: Gospel Standard Trust Publications, 2007), 98-100; also Timothy Whelan, gen. ed., Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840, vol. 2, ed. Julia B. Griffin.