Mrs Charles Monk and
Miss Julia Monk
(1832-1870 and 1860-1951)
24 June 1862

Volume 8, page 104, sitting number 10,036.

[The following entry in the daybooks is Miss Constance Monk. See page 11 of this section for her portrait.]

Born Julia Pandia Ralli in 1832, her father was Pantia [Pandias] Stephen Ralli, one of the pillars of the Greek community in London. Her grandfather was Stephen Ralli (1755–1827), a wealthy merchant of Chios.

In 1853 she married Charles James Monk, son of the Right Reverend James Henry Monk, Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. Her husband was a barrister and politician. From 1865 to 1885 he was the MP for Gloucester.

The couple appear on the 1861 census, living at Everleigh in Wiltshire, with their four daughters: Marietta (6), Alice (5), Constance (3) and Julia (8 months). All the girls were born in Paddington. Also present on the night of the census were eleven live-in servants.

Mrs Charles Monk died in 1870, aged 38.

The baby in this portrait is Miss Julia Monk, born on 8 July 1860. She never married and died on 9 February 1951. After their father's death in 1900, she and her younger sister Ada moved from their Buckingham Gate home and, following a few months abroad, moved into Whitehall Court, overlooking the Thames.