Coppernin

Hedsor Conrad Ernest Coppernin was a German dwarf who just three feet and five inches tall at the age of thirty five.[1] He served as a page to Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha and so was the last court dwarf.[2]

References

  1. Horace Walpole (1849), Anecdotes of painting in England, p. 534
  2. William Hartston (2006), Mr. Hartston's Most Excellent Encyclopedia of Useless Information, John Blake Publishing, p. 136, ISBN 9781843581604


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