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on Leeson Street, and was involved in the foundation of the Female Orphan House in 1790 and the House of Refuge on Baggot Street in 1802. Both were founded to assist homeless and unemployed young women. She is also believed to have personally educated a number of impoverished girls. She referred to
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Blachford was considered an intelligent child, well-read and seen to have largely educated herself using her father's library. Aside from her self-directed education, Blachford spent much of her childhood caring for her father while he suffered from gout. She was raised in the
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Lady Tighe died when
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Henry Tighe, and strongly disapproved of her frivolous lifestyle. Regardless, she spent a large amount of her time in
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in 1810. She briefly outlived her son John, dying on 9 November 1817. It is unknown where she is buried.
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