Mrs Walter Barttelot
(1832-1863)
4 April 1862

Volume 6, page 164, 7525.

[The vase seen in this portrait only appears in six other portraits in the daybooks, all taken within a few days of this sitting.]

Harriet Musgrave was the fourth daughter of Sir Christopher Musgrave, 7th Baronet, of Edenhalll in Cumberland, and Mary Anne née Hasell. On 28 April 1852 she married Walter Barttelot, first son of George Barttelot of Stopham House at Pulborough in Sussex.

The couple were at home on the night the 1861 census was taken, with their two sons and three daughters. Walter B. Barttelot gave his profession as 'MP for West Sussex, Magistrate, Deputy Lieut. for Sussex, late Capt. of Dragoons, Capt. 2nd Batt. Sussex Rifle Volunteers.' Mrs Bartellot gave her age as 29, so she was born in or about 1832. She gave her place of birth as 'Brunswick Square, Hove.'

According to Boase’s Modern English Biography (1908), Walter Barttelot was the MP for West Sussex from 1860 to 1885, and the MP for north-west Sussex from 1886 until his death in 1893. He was created 1st Baronet Bartellot in 1875.

Mrs Harriet Bartelott died on 29 July 1863 at Hilliers, Petworth, Sussex. 

A short report on her death appeared a week later in the Brighton Gazette (6 August 1863). 'It is our painful duty to record the death of Mrs Barttelot, the beloved wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Barttelot, M.P. for West Sussex, who died in labour at his seat, Hilliers, Petworth, yesterday se'ennight, just after having been delivered of a stillborn infant. Much sympathy is felt for the bereaved husband and children.'