Miss E. Gorges
(1844-1920)
16 May 1862
Volume 6, page 316, sitting number 8132.
Identified in the Silvy daybooks as 'Miss E. Gorges,' this is probably Miss Eleanor Georgiana Gorges who appears on the 1861 census, aged 16, living with her widowed mother, Gertrude, a 'fundholder' in Battersea. Miss Gorges gave Dublin as her place of birth.
On 10 February 1863 Miss Eleanor Georgiana Gorges, youngest daughter of the late Hamilton Gorges, married Henry Boddington Webster, son of the late Sir Henry Webster at St Paul's in Knightsbridge. In 1851 her husband had divorced his first wife for adultery. His second marriage produced two daughters.
Mrs Eleanor Georgiana Webster appears on the 1911 census, a widow living at 60 Chester Square, Belgravia, with her unmarried daughter Kathleen, aged 40, and four servants. She died, aged 76, on 22 December 1920 at her residence in Chester Square. She left effects valued at £1735.