Miss Adela Palmer-Morewood
(1847-1932)
[23] May 1866

Volume 13, page 133, sitting number 17, 065.

Miss Adela Palmer-Morewood was the daughter of William Palmer-Morewood and Clara née Price. She was born in 1847 at Ladbrook in Warwickshire, so would have been about 18 years old when this portrait was taken. No date is given for this sitting in the daybooks. Volume 13 is the last volume and the last sitting for which a date was recorded was sitting number 17,048, which took place on 21 May 1866. Miss Palmer-Morewood would have attended the studio a few days later. She is almost certainly seen here dressed en grande tenue for a Queen's Drawing Room held at St James's Palace on 23 May 1866, at which she was presented to the Princess of Wales, who was standing in for the Queen, by Mrs Clara Fairbairn, wife of the politician Andrew Fairbairn (Morning Post, 24 May 1866).

On 12 December 1867 she married  George Algernon Beynon Disney Hacket (born in Africa about 1845). The couple appear on several censuses. In 1891 they were living with three of their sons, two of whom were adults, at Carrington House, Osborne Road, Portsea, Hampshire. Her husband gave his profession as 'Colonel and J.P.' Mrs Hacket appears on the 1901 census, without her husband, at Morpeth Mansions, Morpeth Terrace, Westminster.

Mrs Hacket died, aged 84, on 1 March 1932 at The Priory, Roehampton, Surrey. At the time of her death she was living at the Francis Hotel in Bath. She left effects valued at £17,841.