Miss Robertson of Ladykirk
(1842-1915)
19 April 1862

Volume 6, page 218, sitting number 7742.

[The sitter is only identified in the Silvy daybooks as 'Miss Robertson of Lady Kirk [sic]' but the preceding entry is her fiancé. Their engagement was announced in the newspapers on 19 April 1862 and the couple visited the studio together that same day.]

Born in 1842 at Lees in Berwickshire, Alicia Margaret Robertson was the daughter of David Robertson of Ladykirk, who was created 1st Baron Marjoribanks of Ladykirk on 12 June 1873 but died the following week.  However, as the daughter of a baron, Miss Robertson was now entitled to use 'The Honourable' before her name.

Her marriage was announced in the spring of 1862: ‘A marriage is arranged to take place between Miss Robertson, youngest daughter of D. Robertson Esq. of Ladykirk, Lord Lieutenant and MP for Berwickshire, and the Rev. Henry Day Ingilby, eldest son of the Rev. Henry John Ingilby, of Ripley Castle, Yorkshire, and of Harrington Hall, Lincolnshire’ (Yorkshire Gazette, 19 April 1862). Like his father before him, Reverend Ingilby was a clerk in Holy Orders without cure of souls.

The wedding took place in London on 26 June 1862. The marriage produced two children.

The Honourable Lady Ingilby appears on the 1911 census living at Ripley Castle in Yorkshire. The household included 14 servants. When the census was taken in 1861, there had been 23 servants to look after the house and its residents.

Reverend Sir Henry Day Ingiby died at Ripley Castle later that year on 5 December 1911, leaving an estate valued at £247, 587.

The Honourable Lady Ingilby of Ripley Castle and 21 Charles Street in Mayfair died at Ripley Castle on 15 December 1915. She left an estate valued at £154,526