Lady Henrietta Ogilvy
(1829-1888)
2 February 1861

Volume 2, page 184, sitting number 2026.

Lady Henrietta Louisa Ogilvy was born in London on 17 December 1829, the daughter of Thomas William Fermor (1770-1833), 4th Earl of Pomfret. On 7 August 1856, in the parish church of Easton Neston in Northamptonshire, she married Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Ogilvy of the 2nd Life Guards, son of Peter Wedderburn Ogilvy of Islabank (later renamed 'Ruthven'), Forfarshire, Scotland.

She appears on the 1851 census, staying with her maternal grandmother, Lady Anna Maria Borough, at 32  Lower Brook Street, London. Also present on the night of the census was her brother, a Cornet in the 2nd Life Guards, through whom Lady Henrietta probably met her future husband.

At the time of the 1861 census, she was staying at Easton Neston, her father's formidable seat in Northamptonshire, designed by Vanbrugh and Hawksmoor. When the 1871 census was taken, Lady Ogilvy was living with her husband at 23 Grafton Street, London. Lady Ogilvy had eight servants to help her run the house. For rank or profession, she described herself as 'Colonel's wife (Lady).'

Lady Henrietta Louisa Ogilvy died on 30 August 1888 at Contrexéville in north-eastern France. She left an estate valued at £13,499.

[From an album compiled by Margaret Cecelia Tobin, a Canadian in London, prior to her marriage to Francis Langton in 1869. The album was acquired at the same time as one belonging to her husband, and another belonging to her brother-in-law, Captain Henry Langton.]