Miss E. Clayton
(1837-1874)
24 May 1862

Volume 7, page 17, sitting number 8315.

[Identified in the Silvy daybooks as Miss E. Clayton, an inked inscription verso in a period hand identifies the sitter as Mrs Allgood.]

Elizabeth Clayton was the youngest daughter of the Revered Richard Clayton. She was baptised on 31 January 1837 at Humshaugh in Northumberland. 

Her marriage was announced in The Times on 28 July 1862: 'On the 24th inst. at Warden, Northumberland, by the Rev Francis Henry Laing and the Rev James Allgood, George Allgood, fourth son of the late Robert Lancelot Allgood Esq., of Nunwick, to Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the late Rev Richard Clayton, M.A.' At the time of the 1861 census, George was a 'Lieutenant [in the] East India Service.'

The couple appear on the 1871 census living at Prudhoe Villa in Alnmouth, Northumberland, with their children Adrian George Allgood (aged 3) and Maud Allgood (aged 1). Goerge was now on the Retired List. 

Elizabeth Allgood died, aged only 37, in 1874. On 14 February 1874 the Pall Mall Gazette announced that the wife of Major-General Allgood of Blindburn in Northumberland had been delivered of a son. Ten days later on 24 February 1874 the Homeward Mail from India, China and the East announced that she had died on the 14th at Blindburn.