Lady Alice Hill
(1842-1928)

 

Volume 1, page 120, sitting number 683.  

[The sitter is identified as 'Miss Hill' in the Silvy daybooks but another Silvy portrait of the same sitter is identified as 'Lady Alice Will,' amended in pencil to 'Hill.']

Lady Alice Maria Hill was the daughter of Sir Arthur Wills Blundell Sandys Trumbull Windsor Hill, from 12 April 1845 the 4th Marquess of Downshire, and his wife, the Honourable Caroline Frances née Stapleton-Cotton. On 9 October 1867 she married Thomas Tayleur, the son of Thomas Tayleur, then Earl of Bective but later 3rd Marquess of Headfort. At the time of his marriage the groom was Lord Kenlis and his father was using the courtesy title Earl of Bective. When the groom's grandfather, the 2nd Marquess of Headfort, died in 1870, the groom's father became the 3rd Marquess of Headfort and the groom assumed the courtesy title Earl of Bective but as he died in 1893, a year before his father, he never succeeded to the marquisate.

The Countess of Bective died, aged 86, at her home in London, 29 Eaton Place, on 25 February 1928. She was buried beside her husband in the parish churchyard at Kirkby Lonsdale in Cumbria. She left effects valued at £4689. 

[From an album compiled by the Irish peeress Lady Trimleston.]