Charles Francis Greville

"Charles Francis Greville", Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.

• Titles and British Honours: Hon.
• Place of Birth: Warwick.
• Profession: Politician.
• Appointments Held: MP 1774-90 Warwick; 1774-80 Member of Board of Trade; 1780-2 Lord of Admiralty; 1783 Treasurer of The Household; 1794-1809 Vice-Chamberlain.
• Undergraduate Studies: Edinburgh University 1764-7.
• Father: Francis Greville, 1st.Earl of Brooke & Warwick.
• Other Family: Nephew & Heir of Sir William Hamilton FRSE 1730-1803.
• References: Anderson 2, 446; Poggendorff, 1, 952; Shapin 208.
• Memberships: FRS (1772), FLS, Horticultural Society(Founder), FSA(Scot)(Hon),MWS.
• Date of Election: 24/01/1785.
• Proposers: John Walker, James Hutton, James Gregory (Physical Section Minute 06/12/1784 NLS Acc10,000/2).
• Fellow Type: OF.

SOURCE: Waterston, Charles D; Macmillan Shearer, A (July 2006). Biographical index of former fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1783-2002: Biographical Index. I. Edinburgh: The Royal Society of Edinburgh. ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5. page 387

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Had a liaison with Emma Hamilton, taking her in as his mistress after she'd fallen pregnant with Sir Harry Fetherstonhaugh's child. However, after tiring of her and also needing to seek a rich wife, he hatched a plan to induce his uncle, Sir William Hamilton, to marry Emma.

He had an affair with Lady Elizabeth Berkeley, Princess Berkeley, a playwright and socialite who was separated from her husband, from about 1783.

He never did find that rich wife, and apparently hung portraits of Emma on his walls and kept every one of his letters in the new house he built near Emma's old house in Paddington Green.

(See Wikipedia, Kate Williams' biography of Emma Hamilton and other sources.)