What is Dido Elizabeth Belle's middle name?
Elizabeth
What is Dido Elizabeth Belle's full name?
Dido Elizabeth Belle
Dido Elizabeth Belle nickname(s):
Dido Belle-Lindsay
Dido Elizabeth Belle date of birth:
1761
How old was Dido Elizabeth Belle when died?
43
Where was Dido Elizabeth Belle born?
West Indies
When did Dido Elizabeth Belle die?
1804
Dido Elizabeth Belle body shape:
Slim
What color are Dido Elizabeth Belle's eyes?
Brown - Dark
What color is Dido Elizabeth Belle's hair?
Black
Is Dido Elizabeth Belle gay or straight?
Straight
What is Dido Elizabeth Belle's ethnicity?
Multiracial
What is Dido Elizabeth Belle nationality?
British
What is Dido Elizabeth Belle's occupation?
heiress
Dido Elizabeth Belle claim to fame:
Her freedom from slavery was taken as the formal end of slavery in Britain.
Who is Dido Elizabeth Belle's father?
Sir John Lindsay
Who is Dido Elizabeth Belle's mother?
Maria Belle
Dido Elizabeth Belle family:
Lady Elizabeth Murray (cousin)
Short Biography
Dido Elizabeth Belle (1761–1804) was born into slavery as the natural daughter of Maria Belle, an enslaved African woman in the West Indies, and Sir John Lindsay, a British career naval officer who was stationed there. He was later knighted and promoted to admiral. Lindsay took Belle with him when he returned to England in 1765, entrusting her raising to his uncle William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, and his wife Elizabeth Murray, Countess of Mansfield. The Murrays educated Belle, bringing her up as a free gentlewoman at their Kenwood House, together with their niece, Lady Elizabeth Murray, whose mother had died. Belle lived there for 30 years. In his will of 1793, Lord Mansfield confirmed her freedom and provided an outright sum and an annuity to her, making her an heiress.