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Dame Emma Hamilton (born Amy Lyon; 26 April 1765 – 15 January 1815), known upon moving to London as Emma Hart, and upon marriage as Lady Hamilton, was an English maid, model, dancer and actress. She began her career in London's demi-monde , becoming the mistress of a series of wealthy men, culminating in the naval hero Lord Nelson , and was ...
Horatia Nelson, christened as Horatia Nelson Thompson [1] (29 January 1801 – 6 March 1881), was the illegitimate daughter of Emma, Lady Hamilton, and Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson. Life [ edit ]
Nelson chooses his wife, but Emma faints, and Lady Nelson ushers the carriage away. Against the pleas of his father, a clergyman of the Church of England, Lord Nelson separates from the enraged Lady Nelson, who vows she will never give him a divorce. Emma bears Nelson's child, but Nelson is called back to sea.
Fanny and Horatio gradually became estranged as Horatio commenced an extramarital affair with Emma, who came to despise Fanny. In letters to Nelson's relatives, Lady Hamilton referred to Fanny as that 'vile Tom Tit', while Josiah Nisbet was called a 'squinting brat'. [16] Lady Hamilton also declared that Horatio's father Reverend Edmund Nelson ...
Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante is a c.1792 portrait painting by the French artist Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun. It depicts the English dancer and actress Emma, Lady Hamilton. [1] She is depicted as a Bacchante from Greek Mythology. [2] [3] She married Sir William Hamilton the British ambassador in Naples in 1791.
Emma Hamilton in an 1800 portrait owned by Nelson An antique photograph of a portrait of Horatia Ward (née Nelson) from the Style/Ward Family collection; Horatia was the daughter of Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson and Lady Emma Hamilton. The recall of Sir William Hamilton to Britain was a further incentive for Nelson to return.
Lord Nelson's cultus was repeatedly lampooned in the 1980s sitcom Blackadder the Third. In the episode Ink and Incapability, the show's antihero, Mr. E. Blackadder, mocks Nelson's famous signal at the Battle of Trafalgar. He announces that Nelson used a similar signal at the Battle of the Nile: "England knows Lady Hamilton is a virgin. Poke my ...
The Life of Nelson is an 1809 two-volume biography written by James Stanier Clarke and John McArthur. Published in London by Cadell and Davies , it charts the life of the British Admiral Horatio Nelson from birth to his death during his greatest victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. [ 1 ]