Amelia Watts
Church of St Mary, Hawkesbury (burial place)
Born	December 1750 Calcutta,India
Died	12 July 1770 (aged 19) England
Buried	Church of St Mary, Hawkesbury,Gloucestershire
Spouse	Charles Jenkinson (m. 1769)
Issue	Robert Jenkinson
Father	William Watts
Mother	Begum Johnson

Lady Amelia Jenkinson (néeWatts; December 1750 – 12 July 1770) was anAnglo-Indian woman. She was the first wife ofCharles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool. She died soon after giving birth toRobert Jenkinson, who grew up to becomeBritish prime minister. An early portrait by the painterJoshua Reynolds is thought to have been of her.^[1]

Amelia Watts was born in December 1750,^[2] inCalcutta,India, toWilliam Watts and his wifeBegum Johnson.^[3] She was ofmixed Portuguese and Indian descent through her maternal grandmother.^[4][5]

On 9 February 1769 she marriedSir Charles Jenkinson.^[6] She gave birth to a son, namedRobert, on 7 June 1770.^[7] She died on 12 July 1770 due to complications from childbirth.^[8] She is buried at theChurch of St Mary, Hawkesbury.^[9]

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