Charles Stein
(1823-1889)
16 February 1861

Volume 2, page 209, sitting number 2126.

[Identified only as ‘Mr Stein’ in the Silvy daybooks, a fuller identification was provided by a portrait from this sitting that appeared on eBay in January 2022, which identified the sitter as ‘Charles Stein of Dover.’]

Born at Spott in East Lothian on 7 January 1823, Charles Stein was the son of Andrew Stien and his wife Alison née Dudgeon.

On 17 July 1861 at St George’s in Bloomsbury he married Emily Macgregor Whyte, daughter of solicitor William John Whyte.

The couple appear on the 1871 census living at 1 Camden Crescent in Dover. Charles gave his profession as ‘Banker.’ The household included their three daughters and four servants. Also present that night was William A. Whyte, an ‘East India and China merchant,’ aged 32, who was presumably Mrs Stein’s brother.

Charles Stein died, aged 66, in Canterbury on 25 October 1889. He left an estate valued at £421.

An obituary and account of his funeral appeared in the Dover Express (1 November 1889):

‘We deeply regret to record the death of Mr Charles Stein, Manager of the National Provincial Bank, Dover, an old resident, and one who has for many years been held in high esteem. Mr Stein has not been well for some time and he had gone to reside temporarily at Canterbury, hoping to reap good from the change. He, however, caught a chill and from the effects he died on Thursday night, last week, at Ethelbert Road, Canterbury. He had held the post of Bank manager at Dover for more than a quarter of a century and had for the greater part of his life been associated with the Dover branch of the National Provincial Bank in which he had won by integrity and commercial trust the honoured position which he so long retained.

‘The funeral of the deceased gentleman took place on Monday afternoon. The weather was very wet, but notwithstanding this a large number of the deceased’s friends attended to pay their last token 0f respect.’