Gunnings, two beautiful Irish girls, Maria (1733-1760) and Elizabeth (1734-1790), the elder of whom became Countess of Cromarty, and the younger married first the Duke of Hamilton (1752) and afterwards the first Duke of Argyll (1759).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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