Dido Elizabeth Bell (1761-1804) was the daughter of Maria Belle an enslaved woman in the West Indies and Sir John Lindsay, a British naval officer who was stationed there. On his return to England Lindsay took his daughter with him. He entrusted her upbringing to his uncle William Murray, Earl of Mansfield and William's wife Lady Elizabeth Murray, Countess of Mansfield. She was educated and raised a free gentlewoman alongside William Murray's great neice, Lady Elizabeth Murray at Kenwood House.
This is part of the Job: 2K/12783 Slavery and Justice Exhibition at Kenwood House, Camden, Greater London; within the Volume: VF000156 Kenwood House, Hampstead Lane, Camden, Greater London; within the Series: EHC01/002 EH Architectural Requests; within the Collection: EHC01 English Heritage(EH):Archive
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Photographer: Corrie, Nigel: English Heritage
Villa, Exhibition, African And Caribbean Heritage
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