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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