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1689 – 1762Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)Died 21 August 1762, aged 73Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was an English writer best known for her letters from the Ottoman Empire and for championing smallpox inoculation in Britain after observing the practice in Istanbul. Her advocacy helped introduce variolation to English medicine decades before Jenner's vaccine. She died in London on 21 August 1762.