Miss Charlotte Pare
(1822-1891)
13 December 1861

Volume 5, page 280, sitting number 6614 

Identified in the Silvy daybooks as 'Miss Pare' and on the album page as 'Mrs Wilmot,' this must be Miss Charlotte Cecilia Pare, daughter of Reverend Frederick Henry Pare of Ryde on the Isle of Wight. She was baptised at Cranborne in Dorest on 10 May 1833.

On 15 July 1862 at St George's in Hanover Square she married Major Henry Wilmot, later Sir Henry Wilmot, Bart. 

Lady Wilmot died, aged 58, on 5 May 1891 at Chaddesden Hall in Derbyshire. 

According to her obituary in the Derbyshire Times and Chichester Herald (9 May 1891): 'In Derbyshire Lady Wilmot's death will occasion the sincerest sorrow. She was in the truest sense the helpmeet of her husband, and entered fully with him into all the social, military, and political movements of the county in which he was interested as a member of Parliament, and a leading magistrate. Very early in the history of the Primrose League she took up the movement in Derbyshire, and the energetic support she gave to it was rewarded by a large measure of success, the "Wilmot" habitation having led the way to the formation of many others in the county. In Chaddesden she will long be remembered as the kind friend of the villagers and the warm-hearted supporter of the Church and schools. The intelligence of her death in Derbyshire has been received with the sincerest expressions of sympathy with her husband and relatives in their bereavement, and that sentiment will be re-echoed by all who knew her.'

[From an album compiled by Anna Maria Louisa Barnewall, daughter of Lord Trimleston.]