Mrs R.E. Arden
(1817-1880)
2 June 1862

Volume 7, page 48, sitting number 8436.

Mrs Richard Arden was the wife of Richard Edward Arden (1804-1894), landowner, barrister and director of the Dublin and Armagh Ireland Railway Company.

Richard Edward Arden married, firstly, on 8 September 1832, Fanny Whitsed, daughter of John Whitsed, MD, of Southampton Row, London. She bore him a son on 26 March 1836 but died of consumption on 21 May 1836, aged only 25. The woman in this portrait is his second wife, whom he married at St Marylebone on 29 August 1839. Born Mary Finney, she was the youngest daughter of John Finney, Esq., of Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square (John Bull, 9 September 1839).

The couple appear on the 1861 census living at Sunbury Park in Middlesex, with their seven children aged between 20 and 9, and nine servants, including a governess, a butler, a footman, a cook, a nurse, and an under-nurse.

Mrs Mary Arden died, aged 63, on 18 April 1880 at 45 Portman Square, London.