call-me-your-ala:she is: ‘the first black aristocrat’“Dido Elizabeth Belle (1761–1804) was raised as
call-me-your-ala:she is: ‘the first black aristocrat’“Dido Elizabeth Belle (1761–1804) was raised as part of an aristocratic family in Georgian Britain. She was the illegitimate daughter of a young black woman named Maria Bell and a Royal Naval officer, Sir John Lindsay. Dido spent much of her life at Kenwood House on Hampstead Heath in north London. She lived there with her great-uncle William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, the Lord Chief Justice. He presided over a number of court cases that examined the legality of the slave trade.”Source: English Heritage -- source link