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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“What have I done for you,
England, my England?
What is there I would not do,
England, my own?”
—William Ernest Henley (1849–1903)
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In this America, this wilderness
Where the axe echoes with a lonely sound,
The generations labor to possess
And grave by grave we civilize the ground.”
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