Miss Emily Kingscote
(1839-1989)
23 May 1862

Volume 7, page 7, sitting number 8276.

Born in 1839, Emily Sophia Kingscote was the third daughter of Henry Robert Kingscote of Eaton Place, London. Her father was a philanthropist who helped found churches and schools, sent aid to the Irish poor, sent aid to British troops in Crimea, and tried to found workshops for the blind. He was one of the founders of the British and Colonial Emigration Society, the South Australian Company, and the National Orphan Home at Ham Common. He was also an amateur first-class cricketer who made thirty-three known appearances in first-class matches between 1825 and 1844.

In 1861 Emily was living at Ashburton Cottage on Putney Heath with her parents Henry and Harriett Kingscote, five siblings and seven servants. Her father gave ‘Secretary to Royal Commission’ as his profession.

On 3 June 1862 at St Peter’s in Pimlico she was married by the Bishop of Bath and Wells to James Graham of Hilston Park, Monmouthshire. Her husband was an ‘East India Merchant’ (1871 census).

The couple appear on the 1871 census living at ‘Glan-y-Mor,’ a house in Torquay, with their five-year-old son Douglas William Graham and nine servants, including a butler, a footman and coachman. The household also included a sick nurse.

Mrs Emily Graham died, aged 49, on 5 November 1889 at 39 Ennismore Gardens, Knightsbridge.