Back دايدو إليزابيث بيل Arabic Dido Elizabeth Belle Breton Dido Elizabeth Belle German Dido Elizabeth Belle Spanish Dido Elizabeth Belle French דיידו אליזבת בל HE Dido Elizabeth Belle Italian ダイド・エリザベス・ベル Japanese დაიდუ ელიზაბეტ ბელი Georgian Dido Elizabeth Belle Portuguese
Dido Elizabeth Belle | |
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 Painting of Belle (cropped), David Martin | |
| Born | June 1761 |
| Died | July 1804 (aged 43) London, England |
| Resting place | St George's Fields, Westminster (1804–1970s) |
| Nationality | British |
| Spouse |
Jean Louis Charles Davinière
(m. 1793) |
| Children | 3 |
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Dido Elizabeth Belle (June 1761 – July 1804) was a British gentlewoman. She was born into slavery and illegitimate; her mother, Maria Belle, was an enslaved Black woman in the British West Indies. Her father was Sir John Lindsay, a British career naval officer who was stationed there; later knighted and promoted to admiral.[1] Lindsay took Dido with him when he returned to England in 1765, entrusting her upbringing to his uncle William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, and his wife Elizabeth Murray, Countess of Mansfield. The Murrays educated Belle, bringing her up as a free gentlewoman at their Kenwood House, together with another great-niece, Lady Elizabeth Murray, whose mother had died. Lady Elizabeth and Belle were second cousins. Belle lived there for 30 years. In his will of 1793, Lord Mansfield provided an outright sum and an annuity to her.[2]
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