* Eliza Lynch, Irish born mistress of President Francisco Solano López of Paraguay

Eliza Lynch ( 3 June 1835 – 27 July 1886 ) was the mistress of Francisco Solano López, president of Paraguay.

She was born Eliza Alicia Lynch in Charleville, County Cork, Ireland.

It was 1854 when Eliza Lynch met Francisco Solano López, son of Carlos Antonio López, president of Paraguay, one the wealthiest small southern nations in continental America.

Once in Paraguay, Eliza Lynch became López's partner, bearing him six children in total.

Eliza Lynch would spend the next 15 years as the most powerful woman in the country.

Tomb of Eliza Alicia Lynch at the Recoleta cemetery in Asuncion

Eliza Lynch died in obscurity in Paris on 27 July 1886.

Some people believe that Eliza Lynch was responsible in inducing Francisco Solano López to start the Paraguayan War and that she provoked him to carry on the futile and bloody war against Uruguay, Argentina, and Brazil.

During her time as First Lady, Eliza Lynch educated Paraguayan society in many European customs and was largely responsible for the introduction of social events and clubs.

Eliza Lynch is often noted as the Paraguayan predecessor to the Argentine Evita ( without the change of heart from aristocratic elitism to champion of the downtrodden ).

* Anne Enright, The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch ( 2003 )

See also The Shadows of Eliza Lynch by Sian Rees ( Headline Review ( 6 January 2003 )) and The Empress of South America by Nigel Cawthorne ( William Heinemann, London 2003 ).

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While there, he met Parisian courtesan Eliza Lynch and brought her with him back to Paraguay.

* Birthplace of Eliza Lynch, former first lady of Paraguay.

* Eliza Monroe ( 1786 – 1835 ) – married George Hay in 1808 and substituted for her ailing mother as official White House hostess for her father's presidential events.

Clay and his wife had eleven children ( six daughters and five sons ): Henrietta ( 1800 – 1801 ), Theodore ( 1802 – 1870 ), Thomas ( 1803 – 1871 ), Susan ( 1805 – 1825 ), Anne ( 1807 – 1835 ), Lucretia ( 1809 – 1823 ), Henry, Jr .( 1811 – 1847 ), Eliza ( 1813 – 1825 ), Laura ( 1815 – 1817 ), James Brown ( 1817 – 1864 ), and John ( 1821 – 1887 ).

Eliza's mother and sister joined the Latter Day Saint Church early on ; several years later, in 1835, Eliza was baptized and moved to Kirtland, Ohio, which was at the time the headquarters of the Church.

Lorenzo had siblings Leonora Abigail Snow ( 1801 – 1872 ), Eliza R. Snow ( 1804 – 1887 ), Percy Amanda Snow ( 1808 – 1848 ), Melissa Snow ( 1810 – 1835 ), Lucius Augustus Snow ( born 1819 ) and Samuel Pearce Snow ( born 1821 ).

By 1835, Lorenzo's mother and his older sister Eliza Roxcy Snow, had joined the Latter Day Saint church.

* Eliza Kortright Monroe Hay ( 1787 – 1835 ): Eliza appeared to many a haughty, pompous socialite, quick to remind others of her good breeding and lofty station.

Juan José Ruiz de Apodaca y Eliza Gastón de Iriarte López de Letona y Lasqueti () ( February 3, 1754, Cadiz, Spain — January 11, 1835, Madrid, Spain ) was a Spanish Basque naval officer and viceroy of New Spain from September 20, 1816 to July 5, 1821, during Mexico's War of Independence.

c. 1835 Engraving: Lucia Elizabeth Vestris | Eliza Vestris in The Alcaid

* 1983 – Eliza Coupe, American actress

* 1821 – Jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the ship, Eliza Frances.

* 1975 – Eliza Carthy, English singer-songwriter and fiddler ( Blue Murder )

* 1995 – Eliza Pineda, Filipino actress

" Though advised regularly of Beaux ’ s progress abroad and to " not be worried about any indiscretions of ours ", her Aunt Eliza repeatedly reminded her niece to avoid the temptations of Paris, " Remember you are first of all a Christian – then a woman and last of all an Artist.

* Aimee Ernesta and Eliza Cecilia: Two Sisters, Two Choices, Tara Leigh Tappert, The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, July 2000, pp. 249 – 291

* 1980 – Eliza Dushku, American actress

* 1992 – Eliza Bennett, English actress and singer

* Eliza ( 1803 – 1888 )

* 1840 – Eliza Pollock, American archer ( d. 1919 )

* 1989 – Eliza Taylor-Cotter, Australian actress

In 1860 he also met and married Eliza Brightwen ( 1813 – 1900 ), a kindly, tolerant Quaker who shared Gosse's intense interest in both natural history and the well-being of his son.

She was the second oldest of seven children — Guelma Penn ( 1818 – 1873 ), Hannah Lapham ( 1821 – 1877 ), Daniel Read ( 1824 – 1904 ), Mary Stafford ( 1827 – 1907 ), Eliza Tefft ( 1832 – 1834 ), and Jacob Merritt ( 1834 – 1900 ).

* February 25 – Eliza Haywood, English actress and writer ( b. 1693 )

* January 21 – Eliza Moore, Last person born into slavery in the United States ( b. 1843 )

* February 13 – Eliza Acton, English poet and cookery writer ( b. 1799 )

* March 17 – Eliza Bennett, British actress

* January 15 – Eliza McCardle Johnson, First Lady of the United States ( b. 1810 )