Dido Elizabeth Belle

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Dido Belle, the illegitimate mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy officer, is brought to England by her father and left in the care of his uncle, Lord Mansfield, the Lord Chief Justice, at his estate of Kenwood House.

Though the social mores of the time make her an outsider, Dido is raised by Mansfield as an aristocrat alongside her cousin Elizabeth. Dido's burgeoning relationship with a young lawyer, John Davinier, meets with the disapproval of Mansfield who considers the match beneath her. At the same time Mansfield is deliberating on a slavery case (Somerset v Stewart) which will advance the cause of the Abolitionists.

Dido Elizabeth Belle was a British heiress and a member of the Lindsay family of Evelix. She was born into slavery by Maria Belle, an enslaved African woman in the British West Indies. Her father was Sir John Lindsay, a British career naval officer who was stationed there. Wikipedia

Born: 1761, British West Indies
Died: July 1804, London, United Kingdom
Spouse: John Davinier (m. 1793–1804)
Buried: St George's Fields, Westminster, London, United Kingdom
Children: John Davinier, Charles Davinier, William Tomas Davinier
Parents: John Lindsay, Maria Belle