Miss Somers
(1847-1906)
6 May 1862

Volume 6, page 274, sitting number 7966. 

[The sitter is identified as 'Miss Somers' in the Silvy daybooks but wss identified more fully on the album page as 'Blanche Somers / Mrs Llewelleyn.']

Mary Blanche Somers was the elder daughter of Thomas Somers of Mendip Lodge, Somerset. She was baptised at Burrington in Somerset on 18 February 1847. Her birth was registered in the first quarter of 1847 and when the census was taken in 1851 she was 4 years old. 

On 29 October 1868, at the parish church of Burrington in Somerset, she married Evan Henry Llewellyn, son of ‘the late Llewellyn Llewellyn of Buckland Filleigh, Devon and Yuispenllwch, Glamorgan’ (North Devon Journal, 5 November 1868). Their marriage produced seven children.

In 1871 the family were living at Langford Court in Somerset. This was still their residence in 1901. 

Evan Henry Llewellyn has a Wikipedia page. According to this: ‘Colonel Evan Henry Llewellyn […] was a British Army officer and a Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1885 and 1906.’ He commanded a battalion during the Second Boer War and died on 27 February 1914.

Mary Blanche Llewellyn died, aged 59, on 3 February 1906 at 3 Pembridge Gardens, Notting Hill, London. She left an estate valued at £447. 

She is the great-great-grandmother of David Cameron, the former Prime Minister.