GILL, Eleanor Maud

1855 - 1930

Eleanor Maud Gill was born at Apps Court, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey on 23 July 1855 and baptised at St Edmund King and Martyr, Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire on 23 September 1855, daughter of the very wealthy Robert Gill (c1796-7 January 1871), a county magistrate, and his second wife Fanny Susanna Need (1820-20 August 1911), second daughter of the late Col. John Need of Sherwood Hall, who married at Mansfield Woodhouse on 29 December 1846. In 1861, Eleanor was living at Apps Court, West Moselely, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey with her parents, 65-year-old Robert and 40-year-old Susanna, with four siblings, Frederica Fanny 13, Mary 11 and Madeline Lucy 8, all born at Mansfield, and Robert John Lepping 2, who was born at Walton-on-Thames, and the family kept nine indoor servants. Eleanor was a member of the Ipswich Fine Art Club 1883-1901, exhibiting from Apps Court in 1883, three watercolours 'Solitude', 'Ben Deareg, Rosshire' and 'Glen Lael, Rosshire', in 1884 three watercolours 'In Clumber Park, Notts', 'Sherwood Forest, Notts' and 'Pre-historic Bridge, Dartmoor', two watercolours in 1885 'A Summer Evening on the Avon' and 'Church, Stretton, Salop' and was a regular annual exhibitor. In 1901, she was living at Holmwood Vicarage, Dorking, where her unmarried brother Robert was the local vicar. In 1911, a 55-year-old, living with her 90-year-old widowed mother at Red House, Yateley, Hampshire together with an unmarried sister, 63-year-old Frederica. Eleanor Maud Gill was of The Red House, Tadworth, Surrey when she died at St Thomas, Devon on 21 March 1930, aged 76, she was unmarried.

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