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  1. 1765-1815. English courtesan. In 1782 she
  2. became the mistress of Charles Greville and
  3. in 1786 of his uncle Sir William Hamilton,
  4. the British envoy to the court of Naples, who
  5. married her 1791. After Admiral Nelson's
  6. return from the Nile 1798 during the
  7. Napoleonic Wars, she became his mistress and
  8. their daughter, Horatia, was born 1801.
  9.