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Beau Nash’s Bath |
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Every rose has its day
In 1739, a law was enacted banning certain types of gaming –this unseated the King of Bath - the law curtailing Nash’s primary source of income with his gambling. His reputation was severely shattered too, as many people were not at all enamoured with the thought that his main source of income came 
Nash's love of the high life proved to be his un-doing
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through gambling. He took some of his agents to court, suspecting them of withholding his dues, but he lost the case, leaving him in poor financial straights.
Beau Nash never married as he enjoyed the freedom of bachelor life, but when Nash's finances collapsed in 1740, the second of his mistresses, Juliana Popjoy, who had helped him receive Princess Mary and Princess Caroline at his magnificent house in St John's Court (now the Garrick's Head) helped him move to a house in Saw Close, now Popjoy's Restaurant. He and Juliana separated, but she later returned to nurse him in the last years of his life.
Richard Beau Nash died on 3 February 1761 at the age of 87, and despite the thought of his abhorrent source of income, the city rallied together at his death and he was given a lavish funeral with a memorial in the Abbey, leaving behind him a lasting legacy in the grandeur that was Bath.
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