West Norwood Cemetery 1 of Magnificent Seven Cemetery. Dido Elizabeth Belle, 2nd Grave.

Описание: Dido Elizabeth Belle (June 1761 – July 1804) was a free black 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. Her father was knighted and promoted to admiral.[1] Lindsay took Belle 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 Earl and Countess of Mansfield lived at Kenwood House in Hampstead, just outside the City of London. Childless, they were already raising their motherless great-niece, Lady Elizabeth Murray, born in 1760. It is possible that the Mansfields took Belle in to be Lady Elizabeth's playmate and, later in life, her personal attendant.[3] Her role within the family suggests that she became more that of a lady's companion than a lady's maid.
When she died in 1804 here 1st grave was in the Baywater area, but in 1960s when the old cemetery was being built on. All the remains in the cemetery there was creamated at Lambeth and reinterred here at West Norwood Cemetery.

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