Ernest Aldrich Simpson (6 May 1897 – 30 November 1958) was an American-born British shipping executive best known as the second husband of Wallis Simpson, who later would marry the former British King, Edward VIII. He was a partner with the shipbrokerage firm Simpson, Spence & Young.
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“For it’s home, dearie, home—it’s home I want to be.
Our topsails are hoisted, and we’ll away to sea.
O, the oak and the ash and the bonnie birken tree
They’re all growing green in the old countrie.”
—William Ernest Henley (1849–1903)
“In my grandmother’s house there was always chicken soup
And talk of the old country—mud and boards,
Poverty,
The snow falling down and necks of lovers.”
—Louis Simpson (b. 1923)