Lady Amelia Jenkinson (

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Watts; December 1750 – 12 July 1770) was an

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woman. She was the first wife of Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool. She died soon after giving birth to Robert Jenkinson, who grew up to become British prime minister. An early portrait by the painter

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is thought to have been of her.

Biography

Amelia Watts was born in December 1750, in

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to William Watts and his wife Begum Johnson. She was of mixed Portuguese and Indian descent through her maternal grandmother. On 9 February 1769 she married Sir Charles Jenkinson. She gave birth to a son, named

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, on 7 June 1770. She died on 12 July 1770 due to complications from childbirth. She is buried at the Church of St Mary, Hawkesbury.

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Amelia Watts
at '' Find a Grave'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Watts, Amelia 1750 births 1770 deaths People from Kolkata Anglo-Indian people British people in colonial India English people of Portuguese descent English people of Indian descent 18th-century English women Parents of prime ministers of Great Britain Deaths in childbirth Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool