Miss A. M. Loch
(1839-1874)
16 August 1861

[Identified as 'Miss A.M. Loch' in the Silvy daybooks, the sitter is identified on the reverse of the mount as 'Mrs F. Halliday.' The sitting following hers in the daybooks is F.M. Halliday, the lady’s future husband.]

Frederick Mytton Halliday appears on the 1861 census, aged 25, living at 28 Cleveland Square, Paddington [London], the residence of his father Sir Frederick James Halliday (1806-1901), first Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal. At the time of the census, Frederick Junior gave his profession as 'East India Civil Service, On Leave.'

On 10 September 1861, at Roehampton in Surrey, 'Frederick Mytton Halliday, Esq., H.M.'s Bengal Civil Service, eldest son of Sir Frederick Halliday, K.C.B, [married] Anne Margaret, eldest daughter of the late Thos. Coutts Loch, Esq., Bengal Civil Service' (Hampshire Chronicle, 14 September 1861). Their marriage produced eight children, all born in India, not all of whom survived infancy. 

According to an internet source, Miss Loch was born on 23 September 1839 at Bancoorah in Bengal, India. 

Mrs Halliday, 'wife of F. M. Halliday, Bengal Civil Service,' died on 13 August 1874 at Wimbledon. She was 34 years old. (Homeward Mail from India, China and the East, 17 August 1874).