Miss Agatha Hoare
(1839-1873)
27 March 1861

Volume 3, page 13, sitting number 2750.

[Identified in the Silvy daybooks as 'Miss Hoare of Gloucester,' the sitter was identified on the album page as 'Mrs Fairfield, In Memoriam.']

This must therefore be Miss Agatha Sophia Hoare, second daughter of Gerald Noel Hoare, Esq. She appears on the 1861 census, staying with her uncle, the Reverend William H. Hoare, a 'Clergyman and Banker, without cure of souls' at Worth in Sussex. She was born at Blatherwycke in Northamptonshire.

On 14 May 1861 she was married at St Thomas's in Orchard Street, Marylebone, by her uncle, the Reverend W. H. Hoare, to Digby Willoughby George Fairfield of the Bengal Artillery, eldest son of the late Charles George Fairfield, Esq., formerly of the Scots Fusileer Guards (The Morning Post, 15 May 1861).

Her husband died at Calcutta in India on 20 July 1863 and was buried the same day at Fort William.

Mrs Fairfield died on 22 July 1873 at her father's home, 27 Gloucester Square, Hyde Park. She was 34 years old. (The Standard, 26 July 1873). She left an estate valued at £1500.