Mrs Henry W. Phillips
(1832-1897)
10 July 1862

Volume 8, page 223, sitting number 10,512.

The artist Henry Wyndham Phillips and his wife Susan K. Phillips appear on the 1861 census, living at 6 Church Meadow, Lewisham, near Sydenham, then in Kent, now in southeast London. At the time of the census, Mrs Phillips was 30 years old, so she was born in or about 1831. She gave Aldborough in Yorkshire as her place of birth. The couple had two daughters: the elder, Mary Albinia, was three years old; the younger was less than a month old and hadn't been named yet.

According to Mrs Phillips's marriage certificate, her maiden name was Susanna Catherine Holdsworth and she was married in the parish of Aldborough on 10 July 1856. Her father's name was George Kelly Holdsworth, and his profession is given as 'Clerk' on the marriage certificate, in this case meaning a 'Clerk in Holy Orders,' since he is also named as the priest who performed the marriage ceremony. According to the 1861 census, he was the Vicar of Aldborough.

Widowed in 1868, Mrs Phillips never remarried. She appears on the 1891 census, Mrs Susan Katherine Phillips, aged 59, living with four servants at Green Royd, Bishopton, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. According to the census, she was 'living on [her] own means.'

Mrs Susan Katherine Phillips died, aged 66, on 25 May 1897 at 'Sea Lawn' in Torquay, Devon. According to the abstract of her will, her usual address was 'Greenroyd, Ripon, Yorkshire.' She left an estate valued at £10,489.