Title: Lady Anne Monson
Content:  Lady Anne Monson (née Vane; 25 June 1726 – 18 February 1776), also known as Lady Anne Hope-Vere, was an English botanist and collector of plants and insects.
Title: Lady Anne Monson
Content:  She was the daughter of Henry Vane, first earl of Darlington, and his wife, Lady Grace Fitzroy; she was a great-grandchild of Charles II. Her aunt, also Anne Vane, was a royal mistress. In 1746, she married Charles Hope-Vere of Craigiehall and had two sons before the marriage was dissolved by Act of Parliament in 1757, due to the birth of an illegitimate child. No details of this child's father are known. Later in 1757, she married Colonel George Monson of Lincolnshire. Since her new husband's career was with the Indian military, she spent most of her time in Calcutta, where she became prominent in Anglo-Indian society. She died in Calcutta on 18 February 1776.
Title: 1776 in science
Content: February 18 – Lady Anne Monson, English-born botanist (born 1726) ; June 13 – William Battie, English psychiatrist (born 1703 or 1704) ; June 20 – Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and manufacturer (born 1704) ; November 17 – James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer (born 1710) 
Title: Lady Anne Monson
Content:  Lady Anne's interest in natural history predated her arrival in India. In 1760, she was already well known to the botanical community as a "remarkable lady botanist". It was claimed by her contemporary J. E. Smith that it was Lady Anne who assisted James Lee in translating Linnaeus's Philosophia Botanica, the first work to explain the Linnaean classification to English readers. Lee published the book under his own name in 1760, and acknowledged Lady Anne anonymously in the preface. A few years later Lady Anne was introduced to the Danish entomologist Johan Christian Fabricius, one of Linnaeus's pupils. Later, Lady Anne is mentioned by James Lee in her letters to Linnaeus. In 1774, on the way out to Calcutta, Lady Anne visited the Cape of Good Hope where she met another of Linnaeus's pupils, Carl Peter Thunberg, a seasoned collector of South African plants. Thunberg accompanied her on several expeditions around Cape Town, and she presented him with a ring in remembrance. Specimens of Monsonia, a flowering shrub, were sent to Kew Gardens in 1774.
Title: Robert Monson
Content:  He was born the third son of William Monson of South Carlton, Lincolnshire and Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert Tyrwhitt of Kettelby. He was educated at Cambridge University before entering Lincoln's Inn, on 23 January 1545 – 1546, and was called to the bar on 2 February 1549 – 1550. He entered politics in 1553 when elected Member of Parliament for Launceston, followed by election for West Looe, Cornwall (April 1554), Newport, Cornwall (November, 1554 and 1555), Launceston again (1558), his home county town of Lincoln in 1563 and 1571 and finally Totnes, Devon in 1572. In 1572 he was made a Serjeant-at-law and appointed to the bench of Common Pleas. Monson was a member of a special commission, appointed 11 May 1575, for the examination of suspected anabaptists. Most of the heretics recanted, but two Dutchmen, John Peters, and Henry Turnwert, stood firm, and on 22 
Title: John Monson
Content:  for Lincolnshire from 1664 until his death. In 1671 he became Deputy Lieutenant for Hertfordshire and was commissioner for assessment for Hertfordshire from 1673. Monson died at the age of 46 and was buried at South Carlton. He was remembered as "a gentleman of a brisk humour, a ready wit, clear parts, quick apprehension, good elocution, an excellent temper, great prudence, free from partiality, admired by the gentry, and in all things well accomplished for business". Monson married Judith Pelham daughter of Sir Thomas Pelham, 2nd Baronet of Halland, Laughton, Sussex on 7 June 1647. They had ten sons and a daughter. His wife died on 21 December 1700.
Title: Sir William Monson, 4th Baronet
Content:  William Monson (ca. 1653 – 7 March 1727), of Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, was an English Whig politician who sat in the English House of Commons between 1695 and 1707 and in the British House of Commons between 1708 and 1722. Monson was the second son of Sir John Monson KB, of Burton, Lincolnshire and his wife Judith Pelham, daughter of Sir Thomas Pelham, 2nd Baronet, of Halland, Laughton, Sussex. He married Laetitia Poulett daughter of John Poulett, 3rd Baron Poulett on 18 July 1688. Monson was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Lincoln at the general election of 1695 and sat until 1698. He was returned unopposed as MP for Heytesbury at the general elections of 1702 and 1705. He was elected as MP for Hertford in 1708 general election but was defeated there in 1710. He was returned as MP for Aldborough at a by-election on 16 April 1715. He succeeded his brother Henry in the baronetcy on 6 April 1718. He did not stand again at the 1722 general election. Monson died without issue on 7 March 1727. His property and the baronetcy passed to his nephew, John Monson.
Title: Sir John Monson, 2nd Baronet
Content:  Sir John Monson, 2nd Baronet (1599 – December 1683) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1625 and 1626. Monson was born in the parish of St Sepulchre's, London, the son of Sir Thomas Monson, 1st Baronet of South Carlton, Lincolnshire and his wife Margaret Anderson, the daughter of Sir Edmund Anderson. He studied law. In 1625, he was elected Member of Parliament for Lincoln. He was elected MP for Lincolnshire in 1626. He was appointed Knight of the Order of the Bath at the coronation of King Charles I on 2 February 1627. In May 1641 he succeeded to the baronetcy on the death 
Title: John Monson
Content:  John Monson (c.1628 – 14 October 1674) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1660 and 1674. Monson was the son of Sir John Monson, 2nd Baronet of South Carlton and Broxbourne, Hertfordshire and his wife Ursula Oxenbridge, daughter of Sir Robert Oxenbridge of Hurstbourne Priors, Hampshire. He was a commissioner for militia for Lincolnshire in March 1660. In April 1660, he was elected Member of Parliament for Lincoln in the Convention Parliament. He was a  commissioner for oyer and terminer on the Midland circuit in July 1660 and a J.P. for Lindsey and Kesteven, Lincolnshire from July 1660 until his death. 
Title: John Monson, 1st Baron Monson
Content:  of Burton, Lincolnshire. In June 1733, Monson was named Captain of the Honourable Band of Gentlemen Pensioners, and in June 1737 was appointed first commissioner of trade and plantations. In this office, he was confirmed when the board was reconstituted in 1745, and he continued to hold it until his death. On 31 July 1737, he was made a privy councillor. Monson died on 20 July 1748, and the Duke of Newcastle, in a letter to the Duke of Bedford, dated 12 August 1748, condoles with him upon "the loss of so valuable a man and so amiable a friend" Bedford in reply uses similar expressions of regret.

Question: Verify the following claims with "True" or "False": Lady Anne Monson was born on January 1st, 1726 in Llanwngar in Pembrokeshire, England.
Answer: False