Elizabeth Elstob born (29/9/1683)

Another "Who?", but a very interesting one.
Author of _Rudiments of Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue_ (1715), the first grammar of Old English (Anglo-Saxon) written in modern English. Her preface, "An Apology for the Study of Northern Antiquities", takes issue with Jonathan Swift's "Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue".
"What irritated Miss Elstob in the _Proposal_ was not Swift’s eulogy
or Harley and the Tory ministry, but his scornful reference to
antiquarians as “laborious men of low genius,” his failure to
recognize that his manifest ignorance of the origins of the language
was any bar to his pronouncing on it or legislating for it, and his
repetition of some of the traditional criticisms of the Teutonic
elements in the language, in particular the monosyllables and
consonants."
 From Charles Peake's introduction
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/15329/15329-0.txt
https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-rudiments-of-grammar_elstob-elizabeth_1715
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Elstob