Elizabeth Louisa "Lily" Moresby was born on late 1862 in Queenstown, Cork, Ireland, UK, the second child of Irish Jane Willis (Scott) and English John Moresby, a Royal Navy Captain who explored the coast of New Guinea and was the first European to discover the site of Port Moresby. She was grand-daughter of Eliza Louisa and Fairfax Moresby. She had a eldest brother Walter Halliday, and four youngest sisters Ethel Fortescue, Georgina, Hilda Fairfax and Gladys Moresby. Due to he father's work and her marriage to a Royal Navy commander Edward Western Hodgkinson, she lived and traveled widely in the East, in Egypt, India, China, Tibet, and Japan. Asian culture would greatly influence her and became a staunch Buddhist. She collabored in the writing of her father's book. Two Admirals: Sir John Moresby and John Moresby (1909).
After widowing around 1910, she remarried in 1912 to retired solicitor Ralph Coker Adams Beck. In 1919, the marriage visit Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, where she settled alone eventually. Surrounded by her Oriental art and Oriental servants, she entertained fortnightly at her home on Mountjoy Avenue in Oak Bay as a strict vegetarian with ascetic inclinations.
She began her writing career publishing short-stories for Newspapers and Magazines. She was 60 years old by the time she started to publishing her first books. She used various pen names such as L. Adams Beck for books in oriental setting or about esoteric themes, E. Barrington for novelized biographies of British historical figures, and Louis Moresby for novles set in exotic locales.
She returned to Asia, and continued to write until her death on 3 January 1931 in Miyako Hotel, Kyoto, Japan.
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George Gordon Byron Byron Baron (1788-1824), Gautama Buddha, Anne Boleyn Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England (1507-1536), Astrid, Charles I of England, Cleopatra Queen of Egypt (d. 30 B.C), Cleopatra VII, Elizabeth Gunning, Elizabeth Pepys (1640-1669), Emma Hamilton Lady (1761?-1815), Henrietta Maria of France, Henry Homan, Herbert Dixon, Horatio Nelson Nelson Viscount (1758-1805), Java Hardy, Josephine Empress, Consort of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French (1763-1814), Julius Caesar, Lavinia Fenton, Lavinia Fenton Paulet Bolton, Maria Gunning, Marie Antoinette Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France (1755-1793), Mary Darcy Robinson, Mary Queen of Scots (1542-1587), Napoleon I Emperor of the French (1769-1821), Roger PendarvisTime
18th century, 16th century, 17th century, 19th century, Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901, Charles II, 1660-1685, George III, 1760-1820ID Numbers
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- L. Adams Beck
- E. Barrington
- Louis Moresby
- Lily Adams Beck
- L Adams D 1931 Beck
- L. Adams (Lily Adams) Beck
- Adams L. Beck
- Lily Moresby Adams Beck
- Barrington, E., d. 1931.
- E. BARRINGTON
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