About John Nash Looking at the time-line for Nash in Ian
Sherfield's book on East Cowes Castle it includes: Born 1752,
almost certainly in Lambeth 1758/9 Orphaned age 6 on death of
father 1775 married to Jane Elizabeth Kerr, Newington, London
1782 Divorce proceedings 1783 declared bankrupt 1784 stripped of
all property but a free man 1798 married Mary Anne Bradley,
Hanover Square, London 13 May 1835 dies at East Cowes Castle
October 1834 made will naming Mrs Nash, George Henry Ward (of
Northwood Park) and James Pennethorne (wife's 'cousin' to whom
he'd resigned his London practice 1834) leaving whole of his
estate to Mrs Nash. His executors finally managed to settle his
debts in 1841 The Genius of John Nash The Cowes Regatta of 1815
was something special. That summer news had reached England of
the final fall of Napoleon Bonaparte after the Battle of
Waterloo. After 22 years of war people could at last celebrate
peace and plan for the future. Of all the parties held at Cowes
in that first week of August the g