Countess of Winchilsea
(1831-1878)
13 August 1861

Volume 4, page 352, sitting number 5479.

[The sitter had already visited Silvy's studio three days before this sitting. A portrait from that earlier sitting appears on page 31 of this section.]

Lady Constance Henrietta Paget, daughter of Sir Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey and Eleanora Campbell, married George James Finch, 11th Earl of Winchilsea on 6 August 1846.

Lady Winchilsea died on 5 March 1878.

Announcements of her death appeared in several newspapers the following day. 'We have to record the death of Constance Henrietta Countess of Winchilsea and Nottingham, which took place yesterday morning at Lord Winchilsea's chambers in Victoria-street, Westminster. The deceased Countess was the youngest [sic] of the two daughters of Henry, second Marquis of Anglesey, by his wife Eleanor, second daughter of Mr John Campbell of Shawfield, and niece of the Duke of Argyll, and married 6th August, 1846, Lord Winchilsea, then Viscount Maidstone, by whom she leaves surviving issue George William Henry Viscount Maidstone; Lady Constance, married to the Hon. Frederick Charles Howard, second son of the Earl of Effingham; and Lady Hilda married to Mr Higgins' (Morning Post, 6 March 1878).