Eliza Anne "Annarella" Warington

Eliza Anne Warington (3 April 1788 – 9 January 1873) was born in Naples, Italy, the daughter of Thomas Warington, the British Consul. She was known as "Annarella", a Neapolitan diminutive of Anne.

Late in life she recounted how, aged 11, she had sat upon the knee of "the ugly little admiral" Nelson, and upon arriving home her mother had washed her hair for "it had been touched by that adulterer".

Annarella was born 3 April 1788 in Naples, baptised there 3 April 1788, and died on 9 January 1873 in Paddington at age 84 at 25 Inverness Road, Paddington, and is buried at Stone, Buckinghamshire.

Annarella had sung before the Court of Naples, but on 7 October 1815 in Messina she married William Henry Smyth. One of their daughters, Henrietta Grace, married the Rev. Prof. Baden Powell (mathematician), and by him had nine children, of whom one was to become the first Lord Baden-Powell. For their other children, see her husband's entry.

Annarella was an accomplished artist and painter, though she never exhibited. Some of her illustrations were incoporated into her husband's published books.

In 1886, she was described in her husband's obituary as "a lady of great ability and rare accomplishments, who through all his scientific labours of every description was his devoted companion and assistant." see Royal Astronomical Society Journal, February 1886, p 189.