WB
's mother, Maria Beckford
, was an earl's grand-daughter and the widow of another moneyed man, who bore the young William four years into her second marriage.
Family and Intimate relationships
Elizabeth Hervey
Her mother, Maria Marsh
(née Hamilton), was born in 1725, grand-daughter of the sixth earl of Abercorn
in the Irish peerage, and daughter of George Hamilton, MP (c. 1697-1775). She was therefore a somewhat insignificant...
