Mrs J.T. Hill
(1813-1865)
4 July 1862

Volume 8 page 173, sitting number 10,312.

[The sitter is identified as only as ‘Mrs Hill’ in the Silvy daybooks, but the preceding entry is ‘Major-General Hill,’ presumably her husband. Hart’s Army List of 1862 has 46 officers with this surname, but only two of them held the rank of Major-General that year. One candidate for a fuller identification is Major-General Edward Rowley Hill, but he never married. Therefore this is probably the wife of Major-General John Thomas Hill of Milton House, South Devon.]

Born at Stonehouse in Devon on 4 August 1813, Frances (Fanny) Scobell was the daughter of Joseph Scobell of Goodameavy and of Dunford Street, Stonehouse. 

On 28 July 1836 at Stonehouse she married John Thomas Hill, a ‘Captain of His Majesty’s 32nd Regt. of Foot, son of Sir John Hill, Captain-Superintendent of the Dock and Victualling Yards, Deptford’ (Exeter and Plymouth Gazette, 6 August 1836). 

Their marriage produced three sons and a daughter. 

Mrs Hill died on 24 November 1865 at 5 Gower Street in London. She left an estate valued at £1000. 

Ten years later her husband remarried and had two more daughters.