Amelia Watts
Amelia Watts | |
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_(20819175550).jpg) Church of St Mary, Hawkesbury (burial place) | |
| Born | 1750 Calcutta, India |
| Died | 12 July 1770 England |
| Buried | Church of St Mary, Hawkesbury, Gloucestershire |
| Spouse(s) | Charles Jenkinson (m. 1769) |
| Issue | Robert Jenkinson |
| Father | William Watts |
| Mother | Begum Johnson |
Lady Amelia Jenkinson (née Watts; 1750 – 21 October 1770) was an Anglo-Indian woman who lived in the 18th century. She was the first wife of Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool and the mother of Robert Jenkinson who later became British prime minister.
Biography
[edit]Amelia Watts was born in December 1750.[1] She was born in Calcutta, India to the Governor of Fort William William Watts and his wife Begum Johnson.[2] She was of mixed Portuguese and Indian descent through her maternal grandmother.[3][4] An early portrait by the painter Joshua Reynolds is thought to have been of her.[5]
On 9 February 1769 she married Sir Charles Jenkinson.[6] She gave birth to a son, named Robert, on 7 June 1770.[7] She died on 12 July 1770 due to complications from childbirth.[8] She is buried at the Church of St Mary, Hawkesbury.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ "GlosGen - The Jenkinson Monuments in Hawkesbury Church". www.glosgen.co.uk. Retrieved 2024-12-27.
- ^ "Lord Liverpool". Friends of St Mary's Hawkesbury. 2020-08-15. Retrieved 2024-12-27.
- ^ Edwards-Stuart, Ivor (1990). The Calcutta of Begum Johnson. British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia. p. 4.
- ^ https://www.bacsa.org.uk/shop/bacsa-books/the-calcutta-of-begum-johnson/
- ^ "Philip Mould | Historical Portraits | | Item Details". www.historicalportraits.com. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
- ^ "Strangway-Towneley - Person Page 697". www.townsley.info. Retrieved 2024-12-27.
- ^ "Lord Liverpool". victorianweb.org. Retrieved 2024-12-27.
- ^ "Family of William WATTS and Frances CROOK". woodlloydfamilyhistory.com. Retrieved 2024-12-27.
- ^ "Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin". Historic England. National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 18 November 2018.