Mrs Thomas Beale
(1817-1902)
19 February 1861

Volume 2, page 221, sitting number 2173. 

[Identified only as 'Mrs Beale' in the Silvy daybooks, the portrait was acquired at the same time as one of her husband, Thomas Bardot Beale, who visited Silvy's studio on 4 March 1861.]

Born in Kent on 22 August 1817, Jane Hill was the daughter of E.C. Hill, Esq.

In 1838 she married Thomas Bardot Beale, son of Daniel Beale, a Scottish merchant who had made a fortune trading with the Far East. Until the time of his marriage, Thomas Beale had held various EIC posts in India. 

The couple appear on the 1861 census living at Brettenham Park in Suffolk with their daughter Henrietta and ward Nina Beale. 

Their only son Daniel Chauncy Beale died, aged 34, on 14 August 1877. 

Thomas Beale died, aged 83, on 3 August 1889 at Brettenham Park, leaving an estate valued at £176,153. 

Mrs Jane Beale died on 9 October 1902 at 12 Cambridge Street, London. She left an estate called at £3200. 

‘Mrs Beale, the widow of Mr T.B. Beale, for many years owner of Brettenham Park, died in London on the 2nd inst., at the age of 85 years, and will be buried in Brettenham Churchyard to-morrow’ (East Anglian Daily Times, 13 October 1902).