ADMIRAL LORD NELSON INTEREST, 1787 ENAMEL DIAMOND AND PEARL ...

Hammer

£1,700

ADMIRAL LORD NELSON INTEREST, 1787 ENAMEL DIAMOND AND PEARL PENDANT.
10.8 grams, testing high carat gold.
The marquise shaped pendant set with diamonds on a blue enamel and blue glass background. The surmount set with pearls.
The back with enamelled text: 11th March, Horatio Francees 1787.
L. 5.6 cm.
"In the interim, Nelson met Frances "Fanny" Nisbet, a young widow from a Nevis plantation family.[74] Nelson developed an affection for her. In response, her uncle, John Herbert, offered him a massive dowry. Both Herbert and Nisbet concealed the fact that their famed riches were a fiction, and Fanny did not disclose the fact that she was infertile due to a womb infection. Once they were engaged, Herbert offered Nelson nowhere near the dowry he had promised.[citation needed]

During the Georgian era, breaking a marital engagement was seen as quite dishonourable,[75] and so Nelson and Nisbet were married at Montpelier Estate, on the island of Nevis, on 11 March 1787, shortly before the end of his tour of duty in the Caribbean.[76] The marriage was registered at Fig Tree Church in St John's Parish on Nevis. Nelson returned to England in July, with Fanny following later.[77] Following the marriage he became the stepfather of Nisbet's 7-year-old son, Josiah Nisbet."