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- Upon his death, John left his possessions to his wife Jane and named all four of his surviving children – Charles, Guillame (William), Lavinia Amelia and Edward. John’s widow, Jane and his son Edward remained in France after John's death, whereas his other three children had settled in England.
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After Lord Mansfield's death in March 1793, Belle, now aged 32, married Jean Louis Charles Davinière (anglicized to John Davinier) on 5 December 1793 at St George's, Hanover Square. Their wedding was witnessed by John Coventry and Martha Darnell (a dairy maid from Kenwood).
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Jun 25, 2014 · Dido had twin boys, Charles and John, in May 1795 – and another son, William, was born in 1800. The young family must have lived a comfortable life, thanks to a legacy of £100 a year left to Dido in Mansfield’s will, along with a capital bequest of £500 – and John’s profession.
Oct 15, 2020 · Dido married Frenchman John Davinier and they had three children: twins Charles and John, born in 1795, and William Thomas in 1802. William and Charles were both employed by the East India Company. Their baptism records can be found in our Westminster parish records and their careers are detailed in our historical newspapers.
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Dido Elizabeth Belle was born in the British West Indies around 1761. Her father Sir John Lindsay was a British nobleman and navy captain, and her mother Maria Belle was an African woman that Lindsay is thought to have found on a Spanish ship in the Caribbean (little else is known about her). Her parents were not married. Dido was named after her m...
At about the age of 6, Dido parted ways with her mother and was sent to live with her great-uncle William Murray, Earl of Mansfield, and his wife in England. The couple was childless and already raising another great-niece, Lady Elizabeth Murray, whose mother had died. It’s unknown how Dido felt about the separation from her mother, but the split r...
A 1779 painting of Dido and her cousin Elizabeth—which now hangs in Scotland’s Scone Palace—shows that Dido’s skin color did not give her inferior status at Kenwood. In the painting, both she and her cousin are dressed in finery. Also, Dido is not positioned in a submissive pose, as Black people typically were in paintings during that time period. ...
Although Dido was slighted during meals, William Murray cared enough about her to want her to live autonomously after his death. He left her a large inheritance and granted Dido her freedom when he died at the age of 88 in 1793.
After her great-uncle’s death, Dido married Frenchman John Davinier and bore him three sons. She died in July 1804 at age 43. Dido was buried in the cemetery at St. George's Fields, Westminster.
Much of Dido's unusual life remains a mystery. It was David Martin's portrait of her and her cousin Elizabeth that initially stirred so much interest in her. The painting inspired the 2013 film "Belle," a speculative work about the aristocrat's unique life. Other works about Dido include the plays "Let Justice Be Done" and "An African Cargo"; the m...
Bindman, David, et al. "The Image of the Black in Western Art." Belknap Press, 2014.Jeffries, Stuart. “Dido Belle: the Artworld Enigma Who Inspired a Movie.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 27 May 2014.Poser, Norman S. "Lord Mansfield: Justice in the Age of Reason." McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015.- Nadra Kareem Nittle
Jun 3, 2014 · On December 5, 1793 she married John Davinier, a French gentleman’s steward. The couple had three children, twins Charles and John, baptized in 1795, and William Thomas, baptized in 1802. Dido Elizabeth Belle Davinier died in 1804. Her approximate age at the time of her death was 43.
Aug 26, 2014 · Belle’s husband, John Davinier, was a French-born gentleman’s steward, and the couple lived at St. George Hanover Square in England, where they had at least three children.
Oct 20, 2021 · Less than 9 months after the death of her benefactor, Dido married John Davinier, a Frenchman, at St George’s in Hanover Square, the parish in which they both lived. The pair had 3 sons that there are records about, Charles, John and William, and possibly more who were not documented.
