Admin History | Emilie Alberta Maffett was born on 13 December 1873 in St Helena, Finglas, County Dublin to Marcella Adelaide Maffett and William Hamilton Maffett. She married her cousin Cecil Bisshopp Harmsworth on 28 April 1897 in the parish church of Finglas, County Dublin. The two had three children: Daphne, Cecil Desmond, and Eric. During the First World War, she trained and worked as a nurse in London. She was styled as Baroness Harmsworth in 1938. Emilie Harmsworth died on 04 May 1942. |