Lady Bainbrigge
(1795-1870)
1 September 1862

Volume 9, page 129, sitting number 11,513.

[The previous entry in the Silvy daybooks is this sitter's husband, General Sir Philip Bainbrigge.]

Born Sarah Mary Fletcher on 13 December 1795, the daughter of Joseph and Sarah Fletcher, she was baptised on 20 April 1796 at St James’s, Toxteth.

On 5 April 1816 she married Major Philip Bainbrigge (later Lieutenant-General Sir Philip Bainbrigge), the eldest son of Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Bainbrigge, of Ashbourne, Derbyshire. Their marriage produced fourteen children.

The couple appear on the 1861 census, aged 75 and 65 respectively, living at Titchfield in Hampshire. Also present on the night of the census were a widowed daughter, two young grandsons, and five servants, including a butler and a coachman. 

Sir Philip Bainbrigge 'late of St Margaret's Titchfield in the County of Southampton K.C.B. Colonel of Her Majesty's 26th Regiment of Foot or Cameronians and a Gerneral in Her Majesty's Army' died on 20 December 1862 at St Margaret's Priory, his Jacobean residence in Titchfield. His estate was valued at £6000.

Lady Bainbrigge died on 26 June 1870 and was buried at Titchfield in Hampshire. She left an estate valued at £2000.

A short obituary appeared in the Bradford Observer (2 July 1870). ‘The death is announced of Lady Bainbrigge, widow of General Sir Philip Bainbrigge, K.C.B., late colonel of the 26th Foot. Her ladyship, who was seventy-five years of age, was the daughter of Mr Joseph Fletcher of Liverpool, and was married to Sir Philip in 1816.’