Mary Sullivan
(1833-1907)
24 January 1861

Volume 2, page 161, sitting number 1936.

Mary Sullivan née Currie was the daughter of Henry Currie, Esq., of West Horsley Place, Surrey, who was at one time the Member of Parliament for Guildford.

On 29 September 1859 she married Edward Robert Sullivan (1826-1899), the son of Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Sullivan, 3rd Baronet Sullivan, of Ember Court, Ember [a hamlet in the parish of Thames Ditton, Surrey]. Her husband, who was a journalist and travel writer, succeeded his older brother as 5th Baron Sullivan on 3 December 1865.

Sir Edward Robert Sullivan was a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron from September 1868 until his death; he owned four yachts, the largest being the 297 ton schooner Shamrock, which he built. Apart from his contributions to various periodicals, his literary output includes Rambles and Scrambles in North and South America (1853), The Bungalow and the Tent, or A Visit to Ceylon (1854), From Boulogne to Babel Mandeb (1855), Trip from the Trenches (1855), Beaten Paths (1855), Letters on India to John Tremayne Esq. (1858), Conquerors, Warriors and Statesmen of India (1866) and many others.

Sir Edward Robert Sullivan died in London on 22 July 1899. His funeral was at St Barnabas at Hove in Sussex.

Lady Sullivan died, aged 74, on 4 October 1907 at 8 Palmeira Square, Hove, Sussex. Her funeral was also at St Barnabas. She left an estate valued at £8119. 

[From an album compiled by Gertrude Frances Vesey of Long Ditton, Surrey. The daughter of George and Harriet Vesey, she was baptised at Long Ditton on 4 July 1842. She was 18 years old when she began to compile the album. She lived at home with her parents for many years, until on 23 November 1876, at the age of 34, she became the second wife of the 58-year-old Reverend John William Hawtrey (1818-1891). She appears on the 1881 census living at St Michael’s School, Langley Marish, Buckinghamshire, where her husband was the headmaster 'without the cure of souls.' The couple had a three-year-old daughter called Gabrielle and a nine-month-old son called Guy.]