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Amelia Long
Deceased Person
1762 – 1837
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Who was Amelia Long?
Amelia Long, Lady Farnborough, born in 1762, was elder daughter of Sir Abraham Hume of Wormleybury, Hertfordshire. She was married on 28 May 1793 to Charles Long, afterwards first Baron Farnborough. She was well known in her day as a judge of art and a skilled horticulturist, and largely assisted in laying out the gardens at Bromley Hill, Kent. She died without issue at Bromley Hill on 15 Jan. 1837, and was buried at Wormley, Hertfordshire, with an elaborate tomb by Richard Westmacott.
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- Born
- 1762
- Spouses
- Charles Long, 1st Baron Farnborough
(1793/05/28 - )
- Charles Long, 1st Baron Farnborough
- Died
- 1837
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on July 23, 2013
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