Nancy Fish
Nancy Fish
16.03.1938 (86 years) (Spokane, Washington, USA)
Nancy Fish Barnum Callias D'Orengiani, Baroness (née Fish; 22 April 1850 – 23 June 1927) was an English socialite who was the second wife of P. T. Barnum. The daughter of a successful English cotton mill owner, she started a relationship with Barnum, who was 40 years her senior. After the death of Barnum's first wife in 1873, they married the following year in both London and New York City. After his death in 1891, Barnum left Fish a large annuity, making her a wealthy widow. Four years later, after an accidental meeting in Egypt, she married Demetrius Callias Bey, an Ottoman diplomat, nobleman and businessman. Their marriage in New York City was sensationalised in the American press but was cut short by the early death of Callias in 1896. Two years later, she entered into a mutually beneficial business-like marriage with the Baron Lucien D'Alexandry D'Orengiani, a French nobleman. She lived out the rest of her life in Europe as a baroness and died in 1927. She was cremated and buried next to her second husband. A posthumous biography was published by The New Yorker magazine.