John Emerich Edward Dalberg is Lord Acton. He was born on January 10 1834 in Naples in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (now Italy) to Sir Ferdinand Richard Edward Acton (1801-37) & Marie Louise Pelline von Dalberg, a German heiress. Upon the father's early death, the mother remarried Granville Leveson-Gower, the 2nd Earl Granville,... Continue Reading →