Recently a friend found in the British Library the 1897 play Nelson's Enchantress (about Lady Hamilton and Lord Nelson), which was written by Risden Home, a pseudonym. I am trying to discover who "Risden Home" really was.
The author is in places described as the daughter of an admiral; Bernard Shaw mentions in his review of Enchantress, ”Of England, Home, and Beauty" that the author may be Mrs. De Lacy Lacy, but I have been unable to discover anything about her. Two sources (at least) refer to Risden Home as the daughter of Admiral Sir Geoffrey Hornby and granddaughter to Admiral Phipps Hornby. The admiral who succeeded Phipps Hornby was Sir Fairfax Moresby. His son was Admiral John Moresby (who named Fairfax Bay and Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea), the father of Elizabeth Louisa Moresby.
Elizabeth was born in 1862. She was 35 when Enchantress was on stage. In 1924 she wrote (as E. Barrington) the novel The Divine Lady (about Lady Hamilton), which was turned into the film in 1929. She moved to British Columbia in 1919 and became a prolific author before her death in 1931.
Now, could Elizabeth Moresby have written Nelson's Enchantress in 1897? If not, then two English Admirals of the Fleet possibly had granddaughters who each wrote a work on Lady Hamilton, an interesting thing in itself.
Elizabeth Louisa Moresby wrote under several names, including Lily Adams Beck. If I could find biographic material on Elizabeth Moresby, or descendants, that might help. Here is an article about her:
http://www.cwrc.ca/ceww/research-adventures-at-ceww/