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Philadelphia Austen Hancock (15 May 1730 – 26 February 1792) was an English socialite and the aunt of Jane Austen. Throughout her life, rumours circulated in India and England that she was the mistress of Warren Hastings, who was the godfather and suspected father of her daughter, Eliza de Feuillide .
21 de oct. de 2019 · Philadelphia Austen Hancock: Eliza de Feuillide’s Mother. By Geri Walton | October 21, 2019 | 0. Philadelphia Austen Hancock was born on 15 May 1730 to a not so successful surgeon in Tonbridge named William Austen and his wife Rebecca Walter née Hampson, who had been married before and had a son, William Hampson Walter.
Portrait of Jane Austen’s Aunt, Philadelphia Hancock, by John Smart, Sr. Jane Austen’s House Museum, Jane Austen Memorial Trust. During the second half of the eighteenth century there was an insatiable market for miniatures.
Winfield Scott Hancock and his identical twin brother Hilary Baker Hancock were born on February 14, 1824, in Montgomery Square, Pennsylvania, a hamlet just northwest of Philadelphia in present-day Montgomery Township. The twins were the sons of Benjamin Franklin Hancock and Elizabeth Hoxworth Hancock. Winfield was named after Winfield Scott, a prominent general in the War of 1812.
The Pennsylvania Railroad World War II Memorial is a monument on the main concourse of 30th Street Station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It commemorates the 1,307 Pennsylvania Railroad employees who died in World War II.
Philadelphia Hancock. Philadelphia Hancock was a popular aunt of Jane Austen, one of her father’s sisters. She was born in Tonbridge in 1730 but lived with relations after her parents died. A spirited girl, she travelled to India at the age of 20 to find a husband. The man she married was Tysoe Hancock, a surgeon in the East India Company.
Description: A miniature portrait on ivory by John Smart mounted in gold and framed with diamonds. The subject is Mrs Philadelphia Hancock, sister of Rev. George Austen. Currently a brooch, the miniature was originally mounted in a ring. Made: circa 1768.
