Mrs Henry Robarts
(1819-1875)
4 May 1861

Volume 3, page 193, sitting number 3461.

Identified in the Silvy daybooks as 'Mrs Henry Robarts,' this is probably the wife of Henry Robarts of the leading private bank Robarts, Lubbock & Co, located at 15 Lombard Street in the City of London. The bank was established in 1860 through the merger of Lubbock, Forster & Co (est. 1772) and Robarts, Curtis & Co (est. 1791). It was the last private bank to have a seat in the London Clearing House. In 1914, the firm merged with Coutts & Co of London.

Born Janet Whitley Deans Dundas on 18 October 1819, she was baptised at St Marylebone on 11 November 1819. Her father was James Whitley Deans Dundas of the Royal Navy, later Admiral Sir James Dundas, GCB. 

On 29 July 1845 at Marylebone parish church she married Henry Christopher Robarts, son of Abraham Wildey Robarts.

The couple appear on the 1851 census living at 41 Lowndes Square in Knightsbridge, with seven servants including a butler and a footman. They also had a residence at Cecil Lodge near Watford in Hertfordshire. 

Mrs Janet Robarts died on 6 January 1875 at 41 Lowndes Square. 

Mr Robarts died, aged 55, at 41 Lowndes Square on 13 August 1880, leaving an estate valued at £250,000. 

[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.]