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Emma, Lady Hamilton (April 26, 1765 – January 16, 1815) is best remembered as the mistress of Lord Nelson. She was born Emma Lyon in Cheshire, England, the daughter of a blacksmith, and was brought up at Hawarden. She later changed her name to Emma Hart.
By 1782 she was already very well known in London society, having been taken from a brothel "into keeping" as the mistress of several men, and as the model of the "Goddess of Health" for James Graham, a Scottish "quack" doctor. It was rumoured that she had had a child by a "patron", Sir Harry Featherstonehaugh, named Emma Carew, who was sent to live with her grandmother in Wales, where she remained the rest of her life.
She lived with Charles Francis Greville, a young gentleman who was deeply fond of her, but whose family responsibilities and financial need for a good marriage were inconsistent with his continuing such a flagrant relationship. He sent her to Naples to learn to be a lady as the mistress of his uncle, Sir William Hamilton, a diplomat, in return for Sir William's payment of Greville's debts. Sir William was equally smitten with the lady's charms, and they married on September 6, 1791 at St. George's, Hanover Square, London.
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She became a close friend of Queen Marie Caroline, wife of Ferdinand I of Naples, as a result of which she met Nelson in 1793, who was to gather reinforcements against the French. He returned to Naples five years later a living legend. However, Nelson's adventures had prematurely aged him: he had lost an arm, most of his teeth, and was afflicted by coughing spells. Emma reportedly fainted when she saw him. Still, she nursed him under her husband's roof, and arranged a party with 1,800 guests to celebrate his 40th birthday. Their relationship seems to have been tolerated, and perhaps encouraged, by the elderly Sir William, who showed nothing but admiration and respect for Nelson, and vice-versa.
Emma gave birth to Horatia Nelson T
Source: [wikipedia: emma, lady hamilton]
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