Biography of Euphemia "Effie" Gray Lady Millais 1828-1897

On 07 May 1828 Euphemia "Effie" Gray Lady Millais was born to George Gray and Sophia Margaret Jameson (age 20) at Bowerswell.

On 10 Apr 1848 John Ruskin (age 29) and Euphemia "Effie" Gray Lady Millais (age 19) were married at Kinnoull Parish Church.

On 20 Jun 1850 Euphemia "Effie" Gray Lady Millais (age 22) was presented to Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (age 31).

1851. Thomas Richmond (age 49). Portrait of Euphemia "Effie" Gray Lady Millais (age 22).

1852 to 1853. [her future husband] John Everett Millais 1st Baronet (age 22). "The Order of Release, 1746". Modelled by Euphemia "Effie" Gray Lady Millais (age 23). The painting depicts the wife of a Highland Jacobite soldier, who has been imprisoned after the Jacobite rising of 1745, with an order securing his release. She holds her child, showing the order to a guard, while her husband embraces her.

1853 to 1854. [her future husband] John Everett Millais 1st Baronet (age 23). "Waterfall, or Effie (age 24) at Glenfinlas".

1853 to 1854. [her future husband] John Everett Millais 1st Baronet (age 23). "Effie (age 24) with Foxgloves in her hair".

The Diary of George Price Boyce 1853. 06 Jan 1853. To Rossetti's (age 24), Blackfriars Bridge. Met there W. Holman Hunt (age 25), [her future husband] J. E. Millais (age 23), J. P. Seddon (age 25), Clayton (age 25), Munro (age 27), whose charming group of Francesca and her lover was in Rossetti's studio, Stephens, Blanchard, C. Lucy, a Scotchman and a foreigner. Millais (age 23) somewhat egotistical and little real, his attention being easily distracted. He jerked out some good remarks. Spoke highly of Ruskin (age 33) as a friend of Art; said that Mrs. R (age 24). was sitting for one of his pictures1. Hunt (age 25) struck me as a thoroughly genuine, humorous, good-hearted, straightforward English-like fellow. Said he was bound for Syria before long. Millais spoke highly of Charles Collins (age 24) as a good religious man?

Note 1. Probably "The Order of Release".

On 15 Jul 1854 the marriage of John Ruskin (age 35) and Euphemia "Effie" Gray Lady Millais (age 26) annulled by the Commissary Court of Surrey on the grounds of John Ruskin being "incapable of consumating the same [marriage] by reason of incurable impotency.

On 30 Jul 1854 the Session Kinnoull Parish Church agreed that the "proper steps be taken to notice in the Sessions Records of Kinnoul that the following entry of marriage on Page 64 of the Records of Proclamations viz '[her husband] John Ruskin (age 35) of Denmark Hill London and Euphemia Chalmers Gray (age 26) in this Parish were proclaimed and married on the 10 day of April 1848 by the Revd John Edward Touch Minister of Kinnoul" had been declared null and void by the Commissary Court of Surrey' in a suit promoted by the said Euphemia Chalmers Gray (age 26) ... (1) to engross in full the said extract ...".

On 03 Jul 1855 John Everett Millais 1st Baronet (age 26) and Euphemia "Effie" Gray Lady Millais (age 27) were married at Kinnoull Parish Church.

1856. [her husband] John Everett Millais 1st Baronet (age 26). "The Blind Girl". Mathilda Proudfoot was the model for the blind girl, replacing Effie Ruskin (age 27) who Millais first used as the model, and Isabella Nicol as her sister.

On 30 May 1856 [her son] Everett Millais 2nd Baronet was born to [her husband] John Everett Millais 1st Baronet (age 26) and Euphemia "Effie" Gray Lady Millais (age 28).

The Diary of George Price Boyce 1855-1857. 30 Jun 1857. Wm. Rossetti (age 27) told me that [her husband] Roughskin (age 38) had married his wife [Euphemia "Effie" Gray Lady Millais (age 29)] when she was very ill ....

On 19 Sep 1857 [her son] George Millais was born to [her husband] John Everett Millais 1st Baronet (age 28) and Euphemia "Effie" Gray Lady Millais (age 29) at Bowerswell.

The Diary of George Price Boyce 1855-1857. 19 Nov 1857. Adjourned to [her husband] Millais' (age 28) house, just taken, No. 16 York Terrace, at about 4, and not finding him in waited and had a long and very pleasant chat with his wife [Euphemia "Effie" Gray Lady Millais (age 29)], who has a lovely and passionate face, and whose manner is particularly engaging and ladylike withal. At her request, and afterwards backed by Millais, stayed to dinner, after which she left and I had a long chat on divers subjects with him. He spoke about [her husband] Ruskin (age 38), whom he thinks desperately ill off, and of the portrait he painted of him in Scotland, which he thought the finest thing in the way of portraiture he had yet done, and said he wanted it for the exhibition (R.A). He seemed astonished when I told him I had seen it in Ruskin's bedroom?

In 1858 [her daughter] Effie Millais was born to [her husband] John Everett Millais 1st Baronet (age 28) and Euphemia "Effie" Gray Lady Millais (age 29).

In 1860 [her daughter] Mary Millais was born to [her husband] John Everett Millais 1st Baronet (age 30) and Euphemia "Effie" Gray Lady Millais (age 31).

In 1860 [her brother-in-law] William Henry Millais (age 32) and Judith Agnes Boothby (age 27) were married.

From 1862 [her husband] John Everett Millais 1st Baronet (age 32) and Euphemia "Effie" Gray Lady Millais (age 33) lived at 7 Cromwell Place, Kensington.

In 1862 [her daughter] Alice Millais Baroness Stuart was born to [her husband] John Everett Millais 1st Baronet (age 32) and Euphemia "Effie" Gray Lady Millais (age 33).

1863. [her husband] John Everett Millais 1st Baronet (age 33). "The Eve of St Agnes". Model Euphemia "Effie" Gray Lady Millais (age 34). Location Knole House, Sevenoaks.

On 18 Sep 1863 [her son] Geoffrey William Millais 4th Baronet was born to [her husband] John Everett Millais 1st Baronet (age 34) and Euphemia "Effie" Gray Lady Millais (age 35).

In 1865 [her son] John Millais was born to [her husband] John Everett Millais 1st Baronet (age 35) and Euphemia "Effie" Gray Lady Millais (age 36).

On 07 Jun 1866 [her brother-in-law] William Henry Millais (age 38) and Adelaide Jane Fraser were married.

In 1868 [her daughter] Sophie Millais was born to [her husband] John Everett Millais 1st Baronet (age 38) and Euphemia "Effie" Gray Lady Millais (age 39).

1871 Census. 7 Cromwell Place, Kensington.

[her husband] John Everett Millais 1st Baronet (age 41)

Euphemia "Effie" Gray Lady Millais (age 42)

[her daughter] Mary (age 11)

[her son] Geoffrey (age 7)

[her son] John (age 6)

[her daughter] Sophia (age 3)

[her daughter] Effie (age 13)

[her brother-in-law] William (age 43)

1873. [her husband] John Everett Millais 1st Baronet (age 43). Portrait of Euphemia "Effie" Gray Lady Millais (age 44).

On 30 Aug 1878 [her son] George Millais (age 20) died at Bowerswell.

05 Apr 1881. Census. 2 Palace Gate, Kensington.

[her husband] John Everett Millais 1st Baronet (age 51)

Euphemia "Effie" Gray Lady Millais (age 52)

Mary

John, Grandchild

Euphemia, Grandchild

Albert Gray, Brother-in-law

Nine servants.

After Jul 1881 [her son-in-law] Charles Beilby Stuart-Wortley 1st Baron Stuart (age 29) and [her daughter] Alice Millais Baroness Stuart (age 19) were married. She the daughter of John Everett Millais 1st Baronet (age 52) and Euphemia "Effie" Gray Lady Millais (age 53).

On 16 Jul 1885 [her husband] John Everett Millais 1st Baronet (age 56) was created 1st Baronet Millais of Palace Gate in Kensington in Middlesex. Euphemia "Effie" Gray Lady Millais (age 57) by marriage Lady Millais of Palace Gate in Kensington in Middlesex.

On 10 Apr 1886 [her son] Everett Millais 2nd Baronet (age 29) and [her daughter-in-law] Mary St Lawrence Hope-Vere (age 25) were married. He the son of John Everett Millais 1st Baronet (age 56) and Euphemia "Effie" Gray Lady Millais (age 57).

In 1894 [her mother] Sophia Margaret Jameson (age 86) died.

On 13 Aug 1896 [her husband] John Everett Millais 1st Baronet (age 67) died. His son [her son] Everett Millais 2nd Baronet (age 40) succeeded 2nd Baronet Millais of Palace Gate in Kensington in Middlesex.

On 07 Sep 1897 [her son] Everett Millais 2nd Baronet (age 41) died. His son John Everett Millais 3rd Baronet (age 8) succeeded 3rd Baronet Millais of Palace Gate in Kensington in Middlesex.

On 23 Dec 1897 Euphemia "Effie" Gray Lady Millais (age 69) died at Bowerswell. She was buried at Kinnoull Parish Church next to her son [her son] George Millais.

On 20 Jan 1900 [her former husband] John Ruskin (age 80) died.

Ancestors of Euphemia "Effie" Gray Lady Millais 1828-1897

Father: George Gray

Euphemia "Effie" Gray Lady Millais

GrandFather: Andrew Jameson Sheriff

Mother: Sophia Margaret Jameson