Miss Mary C. H. Sulivan
(1820-1871)
21 April 1861

Volume 3, page 127, sitting number 3198.

[The sitter is identified as 'Miss Sulivan' in the Silvy daybooks and as 'Miss Mary C. H. Sulivan' on the album page.]

Baptised at St George's Hanover Square on 10 April 1820, Mary Catherine Henrietta Sulivan was the daughter of the British statesman and philanthropist Laurence Sulivan (1783-1866) and his wife Elizabeth née Temple, younger sister of the Prime Minister Lord Palmerston. 

On Friday 7 July 1865, The Times reported that '[y]esterday morning the Rev. R. G. Baker, M.A., vicar of Fulham, and Prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral, was married, in the presence of Lord Palmerston and a host of friends, at All Saints Church, to Miss Sulivan, daughter of the Rt. Hon. Lawrence [sic] Sulivan, P.C. Miss Sulivan, who is the niece of Lord Palmerston, is 40 years of age, while the bridgegroom has already attained to the mature age of 77. The ceremony was performed by the Bishop of London.'

The Reverend Robert George Baker and his wife appear on the 1871 census, living at the Vicarage, Bridge Street, Fulham, with five servants, including a cook, lady's maid and footman. Both husband and wife gave St George's Middlesex as their place of birth. 

Mrs Mary Catherine Henrietta Baker died, aged 51, on 20 October 1871 at Ivy Cottage, Parson's Green, Fulham. She left an estate valued at £60,000. 

[From and album compiled by Elizabeth Van de Weyer, wife of Jean Sylvain Van de Weyer, Belgian ambassador to the Court of St James's.]