Arthur C. Vesey
(1835-1896)
22 August 1862

Volume 9, page 104, sitting number 11,412.

Born at Hampton in Middlesex in or about 1835, Arthur Cyril Vesey was the second son of George Vesey of Hampton in Middlesex, later of Long Ditton in Surrey. He graduated BA in 1857 from Christchurch, Oxford. He appears on several censuses, always at Long Ditton. In 1861 he gave his profession as ‘Audit Office Clerk,’ in 1871 he was working in the ‘Exchequer and Audit Dept. Civil Service,’ and in 1881 he described himself as a ‘Clerk’ at the ‘Exchequer and Audit Office.’

In 1877 he married Fanny Corbett. Their marriage produced one son and three daughters. 

Arthur Cyril Vesey died, aged 61, on 19 May 1896 at Croft House, Matham Road, East Molesley in Surrey, leaving an estate valued at £14,762. He was buried on 23 May at Long Ditton. 

[From an album compiled by the sitter's sister Gertrude Frances Vesey of Long Ditton, Surrey. The daughter of George and Harriet Vesey, she was baptised at Long Ditton on 4 July 1842. She was 18 years old when she began to compile the album. She lived at home with her parents for many years, until on 23 November 1876, at the age of 34, she became the second wife of the 58-year-old Reverend John William Hawtrey (1818-1891). She appears on the 1881 census living at St Michael’s School, Langley Marish in Buckinghamshire, where her husband was the headmaster 'without the cure of souls.' The couple had a three-year-old daughter called Gabrielle and a nine-month-old son called Guy.]