The Honourable Mrs Macdonald
(1830-1890)

Volume 1, page 232, sitting number 1113 or 1114 or 1115.

[No photograph appears with either sitting 1113 or 1114 in the Silvy daybooks, though Colonel MacDonald's name appears above each space. Sitting number 1115 is illustrated, the portrait showing Colonel MacDonald with his wife, although she is unidentified as such in the daybooks The same pedestal and balustrade appear as the ones seen here, with the two sitters posed behind the balustrade.]

Born on 12 December 1830, the Honourable Elizabeth Nina Blake was the daughter of Joseph Henry Blake, 3rd Baron Wallscourt,

On 26 September 1859 at Hampton in Middlesex she married the Honourable James William Bosville Macdonald, CB. The bride gave 'Hampton Court Palace' as her address on her marriage certificate. 

The couple appear on the 1871 census living at Ranger's Lodge in Hyde Park with their son George (born 1861) and their daughter Mary (born 1865). Also present on the night of the census were eight servants, including a butler and a footman. 

The Honourable Mrs Macdonald died, aged 59, on 21 July 1890 at Kensington Palace. She left an estate valued at £458.

[The sitter is identified on the album page as the 'Hon. Mrs Macdonald.' From an album probably compiled by Colonel Macdonald's sister, the Honourable Mrs Turnor, wife of Captain Henry Martin Turnor.]