Miss Dora Fasken
(1852-1928)
1866

[The sitter is identified by an inked inscription verso in a period hand.]

Born at Madras in India in or about 1852, Dora Jane Fasken was the daughter of Lieutenant (later General) Edward Thomas Fasken (1823, Bangalore - 1900, Kensington) of the India Staff Corps.

She appears on the 1861 census, aged 9, living at Osborn House in Kensington (one of three large houses located behind Bolton Gardens), the home of her aunt Charity Maxwell. Also present were here siblings Edward, Charles and Annie and her cousin Bessie. 

On 30 September 1876 in Madras she married John Robert Kindersley, a judge of the High Court of Madras. 

In 1891 the couple were living at 34 Cornwall Gardens in Kensington with their children Grace, Mary and Robin, grandson Stewart Turnbull, and four servants. 

They were still at the same address ten years later, now with daughter Mary and sons Arthur (a student) and Robin (an electrical engineer), and five servants. 

Dora Jane Kindersley died on 18 December 1928 at 15 Gwydyr Mansions in Hove, Sussex. She left an estate valued at £10,005.