Nancy Fish, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Nancy Fish

English socialite

Date of Birth: 22-Apr-1850

Place of Birth: Blackburn, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 23-Jun-1927

Profession: socialite

Nationality: United States, United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Nancy Fish

  • Nancy Fish Barnum Callias D'Orengiani, Baroness (née Fish; 22 April 1850 – 23 June 1927) was an English socialite who was the second wife of P.
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  • Barnum.
  • The daughter of a successful English cotton mill owner, she started a relationship with Barnum, who was 40 years her senior.
  • After the death of Barnum's first wife in 1873, they married the following year in both London and New York City.
  • After his death in 1891, Barnum left Fish a large annuity, making her a wealthy widow. Four years later, after an accidental meeting in Egypt, she married Demetrius Callias Bey, an Ottoman diplomat, nobleman and businessman.
  • Their marriage in New York City was sensationalised in the American press but was cut short by the early death of Callias in 1896.
  • Two years later, she entered into a mutually beneficial business-like marriage with the Baron Lucien D'Alexandry D'Orengiani, a French nobleman.
  • She lived out the rest of her life in Europe as a baroness and died in 1927.
  • She was cremated and buried next to her second husband.
  • A posthumous biography was published by The New Yorker magazine.

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