(1793) in
St Oswald's Church, Ashbourne Penelope was the daughter of
Sir Brooke Boothby, 6th Baronet (1744–1824), linguist, translator and poet, and his wife, Susanna Bristoe (1755–1822). Boothby highly appreciated the ideas of
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and was the translator of his works. She died in 1791 at age 5 years, 11 months, after an illness that lasted about a month. She was unsuccessfully treated by Erasmus Darwin. Her grieving father memorialised his child with the commission of a painting by
Henry Fuseli depicting Penelope taken up to heaven in the arms of an angel; and also a sculpture by
Thomas Banks for her tomb in
St Oswald's Church, Ashbourne that depicts her asleep. == References ==