Miss Annie Fife
(1820-1894)
8 June 1865

Volume 12, page 321. sitting number 16,434.

The sitter was identified on the album page as 'Annie Fife, daughter of Sir John Fife.'

Her father was Sir John Fife of Gortanloisk House, Argyllshire. An eminent surgeon in Newcastle-on-Tyne, he 'received his knighthood for his exertions as mayor of Newcastle-on-Tyne in repressing the Chartist disturbances of 1840' (The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, Charles Roger Dodd, 1844). Her mother was Elizabeth née Bainbridge, daughter of Joseph Bainbridge. 

Annie appears on the 1851 census, aged 31, living at 3 Hood Street in Newcastle-on-Tyne with her father and two of her four brothers. Also present on the night of the census were Jane Bainbridge (a maternal aunt) and six servants. 

Miss Annie Fife never married. She died, aged 74, on 14 May 1894 at 9 Alford Street, Park Lane, London, leaving an estate valued at £3147. Probate was granted to her nephew, John Cookson Fife-Cookson, a 'retired colonel of Her Majesty's army' [and another Silvy sitter].