William and Emma Hamilton [ Aristocracy / Travel ]
… (or Emy) Lyon in or around 1765, at Ness, in the Wirral Peninsula in Cheshire, she was raised by her mother in relative poverty. 7 Her father, a blacksmith at the local coal mine, died when Emma was a few weeks old. After this inauspicious … died in 1805, after which Emma, assailed by debts from overspending and gambling, fled to Calais, where she died in poverty in 1815. Her passing in near anonymity was a far cry from the scintillating sociable activity of which she had …
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