Florence became the final resting place for many persons
from England, Scotland and Ireland who had been either born
or who had lived under Indian skies. These could be retired
military persons like George IV's natural son, Sir William
Henry Sewell, or civil servants, like Christopher Webb
Smith, and their wives and children. I give the Cemetery's
Catalogue concerning them below, recognizing that others may
also have seen service there but whose records in the
English Cemetery might fail to note this.
In Florence, because of its
openness, both English and Americans, especially those with
exotic backgrounds, could be friends of each other more
readily than could have been the case in either England or
in America. Several of the ex-patriot women of the
Anglo-Florentine circle came of mixed blood, different colours
and other faiths. Elizabeth Barrett Browning herself had
referred to her part slave ancestry. Maurice (Moisé) Baruch, the
conscientious librarian of the English Church in Florence,
found his resting place in the English Cemetery, buried by the
Anglican Reverend Tottenham, his tomb inscribed in English and
in German, the latter in fraktura script in 1867. Thomas Adolphus Trollope noted
that the Hungarian patriot Ferencz Pulszky's talented
beautiful Viennese wife, Therese Walther, was Jewish. Their
son Gyula is buried here in a tomb showing him above the
Florentine cityscape as seen from their villa.
* GYULA PULSZKY/ AUSTRIA/HUNGARY/ Pulszky/
Giulio/ Francesco/ Austria [later corrected to 'Hongrie']/
Firenze/ 19 Novembre/ 1863/ Anni 14/ 856/?/ Giulio Pulszky,
Hongrie, Balog, fils de François Pulszky de Lubois e Cselfabra,
et de Thérèse Walter/ Thomas
Adolphus Trollope, What I Remember, II. 233-243, who
quotes Franz Pulszky's letter to him, p.239, naming his
surviving children, Augustus, Charles, Polixena, and Garibaldi/
[Boy above Florence] PULSZKY
GYVLA/ SZBALOGON MART XXVII MDCCIL + FLORENCZBEN NOV XVIII
MDCCCLXIII/ SIRATIAK A. KEDVES LEJAT/ SZULEI FERENCZ S TEBEZ/
NAGY ANYJA WALTER HENRIETTA/ TESTVEREI AGOST GABOR HARRIET
KAROLY POLYXENA GARIBALDI/ F3F
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While Thomas Adolphus'
friend, Isa Blagden, and his own wife, Theodosia Garrow
Trollope, daughter of Joseph Garrow, were part Jewish, part
East Indian. Nathaniel Hawthorne creates a composite of these
in the exotic and beautiful character of Miriam in The
Marble Faun. Elizabeth Barrett
Browning described Isa Blagden's hospitable home in Bellosguardo
with its view down upon Florence as that for her heroines,
Aurora Leigh and Marian Erle. Henry James likewise delighted in
visiting this vibrant exotic hostess. John Brett's fine painting
from Isa's balcony includes the medieval walls as they were
then, and huddled outside of them, to our left, the Hebrew
Cemetery.
Robert Lytton, who had
attended Elizabeth's funeral along with Isa, was the son of
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, had published poetry under the name of
'Owen Meredith' and became Viceroy of India.
Elizabeth had hoped Lytton
would marry Isa Blagden, for she had saved his life one summer
in Bagni di Lucca, when the Brownings were also there, but
Isa's mixed blood, part Jewish, part East Indian, prevented
the match. They both wrote works about their romance: Lytton's
Lucile, a kind of Aurora Leigh, in verse;
Isa's Agnes Tremorne
in prose. I am hoping someone will write a book about
Isa and Lytton.
^*°§ AMELIA (WATSON)
BANKES/ ENGLAND/INDIA
/ 66. Bankes/ Emilia/ / / Livorno/ 1 Settembre/ 1871/ / 1138/
à Livourne, Emilie Bankes/ + GL23777/ N° 433/
Marriage G23774 N° 56+33/114 N° 56 19/03/46 Henry Brooks Banks to
Amelia Watson at HBM, son of late Henry Bankes of Chelsea London,
bride daughter of Charles Peter Watson of Calcutta, Rev Robbins;
Burial of husband Henry 16/08/66, of children Esther 12/07/71,
Henry 10/07/69/ AMELIA/ WIDOW OF/ HENRY BANKES/ BORN WATSON AT
CALCUTTA/ DIED AT LEGHORN/ AGED 50 YEARS/ A3S(21)
*°§ ISABELLA BLAGDEN/ ENGLAND/INDIA/ +/135. Blagden/
Isabella/ Tommaso/ Svizzera/ Firenze/ 20 Gennaio/ 1873/ Anni 55/
1194/ Isabelle Blagden, l'Angleterre, fille de Thomas/ GL23777/1 N°447, Burial 28/01, Rev. Tottenham/
Thomas Adolphus Trollope, What I Remember, II.173-175 /
NDNB entry/ Henderson/ ISABELLA [Cross
on Flower Garland] BLAGDEN/ BORN . . . DIED . . .
1873/ THY WILL BE DONE . . ./ F11C [See Biblioteca e Bottega Fioretta Mazzei
acquisitions]
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Isa Blagden, portrait owned by Lilian
Whiting, reproduced in Jeanette Marks,
The Family of the Barrett, 1938. Even her portrait is
indistinct.
ISABELLA
BLAGDEN(1818-1873), is buried near her friends Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Theodosia Trollope : a love
of liberty and a passionate involvement in the vicissitudes
of the Italian Risorgimento cemented the friendship of these
women who lived and wrote in Florence. Born in the East
Indies, Isa Blagden came to live on the Bellosguardo hill in
1843. Although a talented poet and narrator (publishing as
'Ivory Beryl'), she is remembered for those human qualities
which made her the gentle helpmate of R. Bulwer Lytton (Owen
Meredith, the poet), the patient hostess of the old
eccentric Walter Savage Landor ,
and an attentive observer of the Tuscan society of her
times. Exotic mysticism and romanticism are mixed in her
writing, now all but forgotten, effaced like the inscription
on her tombstone (No. 1194). Yet her personality remains
that of a lively, strong, passionate woman faithful to the
most precious gift, that of friendship. [She, with
Theoodosia Trollope, is the model for Nathanael Hawthorne's
Miriam in The Marble Faun. See also Giuliana Artom
Treves, The Golden Ring: The Anglo-Florentines
(London: Longmans, Green, 1956), passim.] LS
ROSE
AYLMER AND WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) is the poets' poet, beloved
by the Shelleys and the Brownings. He was impetuous, generous
and difficult, a Romantic writer who had outlived that famous
poetic generation of Keats, Shelley and Byron. He was born in
Warwick, educated at Rugby and Trinity, and published Gebir at twenty-three,
then again in 1803 in both English and in Latin. The idea for
the Arabian tale of Gebir,
set in Egypt, came from a book Rose Aylmer, the daughter of
Lord Aylmer, had lent him. Gebir
was Shelley's favourite poem. It was also admired by Southey.
In 1799 the young and beloved Rose Aylmer sailed for Bengal
with her aunt, Lady Russell, dying there of cholera.
This passage in Gebir
where the sea-nymph offers a reward was admired by all,
especially by Shelley.
But I have sinuous shells, of pearly hue
Within,
and they that lustre have imbibed
In the
sun's palace porch, where when unyoked
His
chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave;
Shake one
and it awakens, then apply
Its
polisht lips to your attentive ear,
And it
remembers its august abodes,
And
murmurs as the ocean there.
Walter Savage Landor's quatrains
are exquisite.
In 1909 the lines of his poem on Rose Aylmer were placed on
her tomb in Calcutta.
Ah what avails the sceptred race,
Ah what
the form divine!
What
every virtue, every grace!
Rose
Aylmer, all were thine.
Rose
Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes
May weep,
but never see,
A night
of memories and of sighs
I
consecrate to thee.
°§
MARY (PERKINS) POUGET CELESTINI/ ENGLAND/INDIA?/ Puget [Pouget]/ Maria/ / Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 6
Marzo/ 1847/ / 356/ GL 23774 N°106, Maria Celestini, nata
Perkins, widow of late Dr Joseph Anthony Pouget, wife of Signor
Francesco Celestini, Burial 08/03, Rev Robbins/ see Pouget
^*°§ CHARLOTTE MARY FLORENTIA CLIVE/ ENGLAND/ Clive/ Carlotta M.a
Flor.a/ Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 27 Maggio/ 1840/ Anni 17/ 202/ GL
23774 N° 7: d of Hon Robert and Lady Harriet Clive of Oakly Park
Shropshire, Age 17.9 Burial 30-05, Rev. Tennant/ Henderson, notes
relationship to Clive of India/ CHARLOTTE MARY FLORENTIA CLIVE
AGED 17 YEARS 9 MONTHS AND DAUGHTER OF HON ROBERT HENRY AND THE
LADY HARRIET CLIVE DIED MAY 27 1846/C21N
^*°§ FANNY CREWE/ ENGLAND/
Crewe/ Fanny/ / Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 13 Novembre/ 1846/ Anni
56/ 347/ [Urn with drapery on column]/ GL 23774 N° 101: Burial
15-11, widow of Capt Crewe of East India Company, Age 54, Rev
Robbins/ SACRED/ TO THE MEMORY OF/ FANNY RELICT OF THE LATE/
COL RICHARD CREWE/ OF THE MADRAS ARMY/ WHO DIED AT FLORENCE
NOV 15TH 1846/ WEEP NOT SHE IS NOT DEAD BUT SLEEPETH/A6R(73) /Sculptor: Pietro Bazzanti,
Signature: P.BAZZANTI.F
*°§ ANNIE DALLAS/ ENGLAND/INDIA/ Dallas/ Anna/ Arbutha/ Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 9
Gennaio/ 1865/ Anni 17/ 895/ Anna Dallas, l'Angleterre, fille de
Arbutha Dallas et de Sophie Elisabeth/ GL23777/1 N°352, Burial
11/o1, Rev Pendleton/ SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF ANNIE, ONLY
CHILD OF THE LATE CAPT/ ARBUTHNOT DALLAS INDIAN ARMY DIED
JANUARY 9TH 1865// SHE IS NOT DEAD BUT SLEEPETH/ MARK 5.39//
BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART FOR THEY SHALL SEE GOD./ MATTHEW
5.8/ A10R(138)/ Exquisite
filigree cross in Sienese marble. Mother in Allori Cemetery
has identical tomb.
* JAMES DENNIS/ IRELAND/
Denis/ Giacomo/ / Inghilterra/
Parma/ 6 Dicembre/ 1855/ Anni 48/ 586/ Dublin, royaume Irlanda/
& ANN (DENNIS) JOHNSON/ IRELAND/INDIA / [obelisk with
castle on cube within wrought iron railing and gate] AT MEERUT
OF THE NORTH WEST/ PROVINCES EAST INDIES IS BURRIED [sic]/
ANN THE DEARLY LOVED WIFE OF/G. ROSS JOHNSON ESQUIRE OF
THE INNER TEMPLE/ BARRISTER OF LAU (sic) AND
THE SECOND DAUGHTER OF HIM COHOSE REMAINS LIE BURIED HERE/
DISTINGUISHED FOR THE GRACE AND LOVELINESS OF HER MIND AND
PERSON SHE DIED . . ./. . AGED . . .
LEAVING A HUSBAND . . . TWO INFANT SONS TO DEPLORE THEIR
LOSS// JACOBUS DENNIS. . . PATERNUS/ HUC RITE TRANSLATA/
LACRIMIS . . . SEQUITUR/ PARENTI OPTIMO/ . . . SOLVIT/
ATQUE UNA CUM . . . / C21R/
James Dennis, Isaac Lumley,
Massimiliano Zileri associated with Parma
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The beautiful iron railing to
this tomb has now collpased and we seek funds to restore it.
*°§ HARRIET
THEODOSIA FISHER (GARROW)/ ENGLAND/INDIA / Fischer/
Enrichetta Teodosia/ / Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 12 Novembre/ 1848/
Anni 37/ 393/ GL 23774 N° 26: Burial
14-11, Rev Robbins, Joseph Garrow's stepdaughter, Theodosia
Garrow's half sister/ Thomas Adolphus Trollope, What I
Remember, II.150-152, noting their mother was formerly a
Miss Abrams and Jewish, who first married a naval officer,
Fisher, then Joseph Garrow, whose own mother was East Indian;
and that Harriet died of smallpox/ SACRED/ TO THE
MEMORY OF/ HARRIET THEODOSIA FISHER/ STEP DAUGHTER OF JOSEPH
GARROW/ OF BRADDONS TORQUAY DEVON ESQ/ WHO DIED UNIVERSALLY
REGRETTED/ AT FLORENCE NOV 12 1848/ AGED 37 YEARS/ FOR ONE SO
LOVING AND DUTIFUL/ OF GENEROUS COMPASSIONATE AND/ SELF DENYING
LET US NOT WEEP AS THOSE WHO HAVE NO HOPE FOR/ WE KNOW THAT OUR
BELOVED/ HAS RECEIVED HER REWARD/ D23G
^*°§ ELIZABETH MARGARET FOMBELLE/ ENGLAND/ Fombelle/ Elisabetta
Margherita/ Giovanni/ Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 8 Gennaio/ 1865/
Anni 72/ 894/ Elisabeth Marguerite Fombelle, l'Angleterre, fille
de John Fombelle/ GL23777/1 N° 351, widow, child of late Barris
Crisp, Burial 10/01, age 73, Rev Pendleton/ SACRED/ TO THE/
MEMORY/ OF/ ELIZABETH MARGARET FOMBELLE/ WIDOW OF THE LATE
JOHN FOMBELLE ESQ/ OF THE BENGAL CIVIL SERVICE/ SHE DEPARTED
THIS LIFE UPON THE VIIITH DAY OF/ JANUARY MDCCCLXV/ HER KIND
HEARTED AND LOVING DISPOSITION/ ENDEARED HER TO ALL WHO KNEW
HER/ ROM XII.10/E14H
^*°§ JOHN FOMBELLE/ ENGLAND
/ Fombelle/ Giovanni/ / Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 26 Novembre/ 1849/ /
421/ GL 23774 N° 143: Death 26-11, Burial 26-11, Rev Robbins/
Maquay Diaries: 21 Oct 1849; 26 Nov./ [ourobouros
with sunburst]// SACRED/ TO THE MEMORY OF/ JOHN FOMBELLE
ESQ.RE/ LATE OF THE E.I. COMPANY'S BENGAL CIVIL SERVICE/ WHO
AFTER HAVING FILLED THE HIGHEST JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS IN THE/
PRESIDENCY OF BENGAL, IN A MANNER TO MERIT THE HIGHEST
APPROBATION OF THE/ INDIAN GOVERNMENT, AND THE LOVE AND
AFFECTION OF THE NATIVE COMMUNITY,/ RETIRED FROM PUBLIC
EMPLOYMENT, AFTER A SERVICE OF 34 YEARS/ HE DEPARTED THIS LIFE
AT FLORENCE ON THE 24TH NOVR MDCCCXLIX/ IN HIS EIGHTY SEVENTH
YEAR, DEEPLY REGRETTED/ E14H/Sculptor:
Pietro Bazzanti, Signature:
P.BAZZANTI.F.
^*°§ JOSEPH
GARROW/ INDIA/ Garrow/ +/
Giuseppe/ / Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 10 Novembre/ 1867 [1857]/ Anni
67/ 624/ Joseph Garrow, d'Angleterre/ / father of
Theodosia Garrow-Trollope (12 Aprile/ 1865/ Anni 46/
904/+/ F11E), stepfather of Harriet Theodosia Fisher (12
Novembre/ 1848/ Anni 37/ 393/ D23G, epitaph written by Thomas Adolphus Trollope). See Giuliana Artom Treves, Golden Ring,
pp. 137/ GL23777/1 N°242, Burial 12/11, Rev O'Neill; marriage
of child Theodosia 03/04/48 to Thomas Adolphus Trollope at HBM
(Hamilton), Joseph Garrow, Harriet Fisher, Frances Trollope
present, Rev Robbins/ Maquay
Diaries: 13 Nov 1857/ Thomas Adolphus Trollope, What I
Remember, II.150-159/ HIC
JACET IOSEPHUS GARROW/ ARMr/ DE BRADDONS IN AGRO DEVON/ APUD
INDOS NATUS/ A.D. 1789/ FLORENTIAN DENATUS/ A.D. 1857/ F12G/ See
Theodosia Trollope, Harriet Fisher Joseph
Garrow, Joseph Garrow, Eleanora Garrow
^*°§ SIR THOMAS SEVESTRE/ ENGLAND/ Sevestre/ Tommaso/ /
Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 15 Febbraio/ 1842/ / 236/ GL 23774 N° 31:
Burial, 17-02, Rev Tennant/Thomas Adolphus Trollope, What
I Remember, II.146-147, describes Sir Thomas Sevestre, as an
old India Army surgeon called on at the Baths of Lucca to attend a
dying duellist/ SACRED TO THE MEMORY/ OF/ SIR THOMAS SE .
. . BART/ WHO . . . / . . . / F10E
*°§ + LADY GEORGINA HACKING SEWELL/ ENGLAND/ Sewell/ Giorgina/ /
Inghilterra/ Londra/ / / 1172/ +/ GL23777/1 N° 439,
Burial 10/06, age 62/ IN MEMORY OF GEORGINA HACKING SEWELL/
WIDOW OF GEN. SIR W.H. SEWELL K.C.B. WHO FELL ASLEEP ON 1 MAY
1872/ B13O
With Sir William Henry
Sewell we should add his two companions in their burial plot:
^*°§ JAMES BANSFIELD/
ENGLAND/ 71. Bansfield/ Giacomo/ / Inghilterra/
Firenze/ 11 Gennaio/ 1862/ Anni 49/ 771/ James Bansfield,
l'Angleterre/ GL23777/1 N° 306/ cause of death, bronchitis
Burial 13/01, Rev O'Neill/ "NOT NOW AS A SERVANT ABOVE A
SERVANT A BROTHER BELOVED" PHILEMON 16 VERSE/ SACRED TO THE
MEMORY OF JAMES BANSFIELD PRIVATE IN THE 11TH HUSSARS/ WHO
DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON THE 11TH OF JANUARY 1862/ HE WAS FOR 20
YEARS THE FAITHFUL AND DEVOTED SERVANT OF GENERAL SIR W.H.
SEWELL K.C.B. BY WHOSE WIDOW THIS TOMB WAS RAISED/ B12O/ See
Sewell tombs
^*°§ HOMAN
MULOCK/
ENGLAND/ Mulock/
Homan/ Tommas H./ Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 21 Aprile/ 1861/ Anni
14/ 727/ Homan Mulock, l'Angleterre, fils de Homan Mulock et de
Frances Sophia/ GL23777/1 N° 290 Burial 23/04, Rev O'Neill;
Marriage relative, G20776 N° 144 01/06/58 Peter MacFarlane Syme
to Elizabeth Georgina Mulock at HBM (Normanby) groom esq 1st
lieut Bengal Artillery, 4 Mulocks as witnesses, Rev O'Neill/ B12O/ see Sewell tombs.
*°§ ANNIE JESSIE (MACKENZIE) SMITH/ SCOTLAND /
Smith nata Mackenzie/ Anna/ / Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 1
Settembre/ 1862/ Anni 56/ 801/
Anna Smith, l'Angleterre, Ecosse/ GL23777/1 N° 316 Burial
05/09 Rev Ponton/ SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF ANNIE JESSIE
FOURTH DAUGHTER/ OF CAPT DONALD MACKENZIE OF HARTFIELDS
ROSSHIRE AND WIFE/ OF CHRISTOPHER WEBB SMITH ESQ OF THE
BENGAL CIVIL SERVICE/ [Below Casket] THIS MONUMENT
IS ERECTED BY THE SORROWING HUSBAND TO THE MEMORY OF THE
FAITHFUL AND MOST AFFECTIONATE COMPANION AND PARTNER IN HIS
EVERY JOY AND SORROW/ DURING A PERIOD OF XXXV YEARS. TO THE
MEMORY OF THE CHRISTIAN WIFE AND MOTHER, THE KIND FRIEND OF
ALL AROUND HER AND ESPECIALLY OF THE POOR AND DISTRESSED./
TO THE MEMORY OF HER WHO IN HER LAST AND PROTRACTED ILLNESS
WAS AN EMINENT EXAMPLE OF THE POWER OF HOLY RELIGION./ IN
THE TRIUMPH OF FAITH HOPE AND PATIENCE UNTIL WELCOMING DEATH
AS THE PORTAL TO GLORY SHE FELL ASLEEP IN JESUS./ WRITE
"BLESSED ARE THE DEAD WHICH DIE IN THE LORD" REV. XIV.13/ [Coat
of Arms]/ F6I/ Sculptor:
Pietro Bazzanti, similar to Tennant tomb.
^*°§ CHRISTOPHER WEBB SMITH/ ENGLAND/ Smith/ Cristofero/ Enrico/
Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 18 Gennaio/ 1871/ Anni 77/ 1115/ Christophe
Smith, Esquire, l'Angleterre, rentier, fils de Henri/ FO 79
passim, Tassinari speaks of his longevity, resident in Florence
nearly 30 years; GL23777/1 N° 427 Burial 21/01, age 77, Rev
Tottenham/ SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF/ CHRISTOPHER WEBB SMITH
ESQR/ BORN AT CAMBERWELL 30TH MAY 1796/ DIED IN FLORENCE 18TH
JANUARY 1871/ [Below Casket] FORMERLY A JUDGE IN
BENGAL, A MEMBER OF THE SAME BOARD OF GOVERNORS IN CALCUTTA/ FOR
THE LAST YEARS HE RESIDED IN FLORENCE/ UNIVERSALLY BELOVED FOR
HIS WORKS' SAKE IN HIS LIFE, HE IS DEEPLY REGRETTED IN HIS
DEATH./ "WELL DONE THOU GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT. ENTER THOU
INTO THE JOY OF THY LORD"/ MATTH. XXV.21/
F6I/ Sculptor: Pietro Bazzanti. See Biblioteca e
Bottega Fioretta Mazzei, http://www.florin.ms/libhe.html
°§ JULIA (WOODBURN)
STRACHEY/ ENGLAND/ Strachey nata Woodburn/ Giulia/ / Inghilterra/
Perugia/ 20 Novembre/ 1846/ Anni 56/ 350/ GL 23774 N° 102:
widow of Edward Strachey, late of Bengal Civil Establishment,
died at Perugia, Friday 20-11, Burial 24-11/ NDNB entry for Sir
Edward Strachey/ Strahm/
Margherita/ / Svizzera/ Firenze/ 21 Dicembre/ 1836/ / 149
*°§ SIR GRENVILLE TEMPLE, BART/ ENGLAND /
Temple/ Grenville/ / Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 18 Febbraio/ 1829/
Anni 60/ 14/ Burke's Peerage, Sir Grenville Temple, 9th Baronet,
1768-1829/ NDNB entry for
ancestor Richard Grenvile-Temple/ GRENVILLIVS.TEMPLE/ MAG. BRIT. EQ. BARONETTVS/
VIX ANNI LXI/ OB. XVIII.FEBR./ MDCCC.XXIX./ MONVMENTVM.
POSVERVNT. FILII. MORENTES/ N.XIV/ E19I/ Sculptor: Pietro Bazzanti
Tombs of Isabella and Grenville Temple.
The painting is of the Maharaja of
Travancore and his younger brother welcoming Richard
Temple-Grenville, relative of Grenville Temple, and
governor-general of Madras, on an official visit to what is
now the southern state of Kerala in 1880.
The military family seems to have stood godparents to the
little Isabella Temple Bayley who is buried at his side.
Mercifully another child is born to the grieving parents
the following year and his baptism with the name 'Charles',
registered, 30/4/54.
°§ ISABELLA TEMPLE BAYLEY/ ENGLAND/INDIA/ 87. Baylay/ Isabella T./ Daniele/ Inghilterra/
Firenze/ 28 Novembre/ 1853/ Anni 2/ 520/ Isabelle Temple Baylay,
fille de Daniel Baylay, et de Isabelle/ GL23777/1 N°190 Burial
01/12; Baptism sibling GL23775 N°229/50, Charles, 30/04/54, Rev.
Greene/ [Rosebuds] SACRED TO
THE MEMORY/ OF/ ISABELLA TEMPE/ THE BELOVED AND ONLY CHILD/
OF/ DANIEL BAYLEY/ OF THE BENGAL CAVALRY/ AND/ ISABELLA
FRANCES HIS WIFE/ BORN ON THE 28TH OF OCTOBER 1851/ DIED ON
THE 29TH OF NOVEMBER 1853/ COME YE BLESSED OF MY FATHER/
INHERIT THE/ KINGDOM PREPARED FOR/ YOU FROM THE FOUNDATION /
OF THE WORLD/ 25TH MATTHEW 24TH VERSE/ E19I/ See
Bayley
*°§ THEODOSIA (GARROW) TROLLOPE/ ENGLAND/ Trolloape [Trollope]/
Teodosia/ [Joseph Garrow]/ Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 12 Aprile/ 1865/
Anni 46/ 904/+/ Theodosia Trollope, l'Angleterre/GL23777/1 N° 357 Burial 15/04 Age 46 Rev
Pendleton; Marriage GL23774 N° 71+170/6 N° 71 03/04/48 Thomas
Adolphus Trollope to Theodosia Garrow at HBM (Hamilton) bride d
of Joseph Garrow, Devon, Rev Robbins; Baptism of child GL23775
N° 219/40, Beatrice Catherine Harriet 05/05/53, father Thomas
Adolphus Esq, mother Theodosia, Rev O'Neill/ Thomas Adolphus
Trollope, What I Remember, II.150-159, 166-168, &
Chapter XVIII, who describes her as Florence's new Corinne; pp.
171-173. on her childhood friendship with Elizabeth Barrett
Browning, both invalids to tuberculosis in Torquay/ NDNB
entries for Theodosia Trollope, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley,
whose grandson married first Theodosia's daughter, Bice, then
Millais' daughter, Caroline/ THEODOSIAE TROLLOPE/ T.
ADOLFI TROLLOPE CONIUGIS/ QUOD MORTALE FUIT/ HIC IACET/ OBITUM
EIUS FLEVERUNT OMNES/ QUANTUM AUTEM FERRI MERUIT/ VIR EUGUI
SCRIPTORES/ SCIT SOLUS/ JOSEFE GARROW ARMr FILIA/ APUD TORQEW IN
AGRORUM DEVON ANGLORUM NATA/ FLORENTIAE NOMEN AGENS LUSTRUM/ AD
PLURES DIVINAE . . ./ MENSES APRILES A.D. 1865/ F11E/ See
Fisher, Garrow, Trollope, Shinner
THEODOSIA TROLLOPE-GARROW (1825-1865), when an invalid child in
Torquay, had known Elizabeth Barrett, likewise a child
invalid. Theodosia Garrow arrived in Florence in 1845 with
her father, Joseph Garrow (who is buried near her tomb), an
able violinist, and her mother, who became friendly with
their neighbours, the Trollopes, as a result of a visit by
their mutual friend Charles Dickens. She married Thomas
Adolphus Trollope and moved to the little house in Piazza
Barbano in 1848. She was a talented writer with a wonderful
mastery of Italian and translated works by Giusti and G.B.
Nicolini. A fanatic supporter of the cause of Italian
independence, she published a history of the Tuscan
Revolution in the Athenaeum. LS
F124/ AMELIA (WATSON) BANKES/ ENGLAND/INDIA/
She was born in Calcutta, India, she married in Florence,
her husband A94/HENRY
BROOKS BANKES has died five years
ago at 52, her son A82/HENRY
BANKES two years ago at 21, her
daughter F125/ ESTHER
SUSAN AMELIA BANKES two months ago,
also at 21, and she now dies in Livorno at the age of 50. They
had two children, Esther and Henry, her menfolk being buried
in Sector A, she and her daughter in Sector F. For
her father, Vice-Admiral Charles Watson, who served as
governor of Newfoundland and who is buried in St John's
Churchyard, Calcutta, see Wikipedia.
Vice-Admiral Charles Watson, Tomb
Cippo. Marmista ignoto. Sec. XIX, post
9/1871. Ambito
toscano. Dippo di marmo bianco, ora sporco. Intervento di pulitura,
Daniel-Claudiu Dumitrescu, 2012. Pietra serena degrada. [M: A: 75; L:
34.5; P: 8.5; P.s. A: 28; L: 51; P: 24.] Iscrizione
sepolcrale inglese incisa in lettere capitali e numeri arabi: AMELIA/
WIDOW OF/ HENRY BANKES/ BORN WATSON AT CALCUTTA/ DIED AT
LEGHORN/ AGED 50 YEARS/ Eglise Evangelique-Reformée de
Florence Régistre des Morts: A Livourne, Emilie Bankes/
+ Records, Guildhall Library, London: GL23777/ N° 433/
Marriage G23774 N° 56+33/114 N° 56 19/03/46 Henry Brooks Banks
to Amelia Watson at HBM, son of late Henry Bankes of Chelsea
London, bride daughter of Charles Peter Watson of Calcutta, Rev
Robbins (E101);
Burial of husband Henry 16/08/66, of children Esther 12/07/71,
Henry 10/07/69/ Obituary, Times, 'widow of Henry James
Swift Bankes, formerly of Liege, Belgium'/ Registro alfabetico delle
tumulazione nel Cimitero di Pinti: 66. Bankes/ Emilia/
/ / Livorno/ 1 Settembre/ 1871/ / 1138/ See Bankes, Sector A/N&Q
450. Amelia, wid. of Henry Bankes, born Watson, at Calcutta; ob.
at Leghorn, 1 Sep., 1871, a. 30. Chiesa
Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present.
See http://www.florin.ms/ironchain.html,
http://www.florin.ms/garrows.html
And now I add the splendid photographs Brian
Bach has sent that he took in Calcutta's South Park Street
Cemetery in 2011, with the suggestion that they be compared with
the Reykjavik Cemetery on
Iceland:
Charles
Dickens' son Lieut. Walter Landor Dickens, his tomb brought here
by the university students from the Scottish Cemetery
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