Biography of Florence Leyland 1859-1921
On 23 Mar 1855 [her father] Frederick Richards Leyland (age 23) and [her mother] Frances Dawson (age 21) were married.
On 02 Sep 1859 Florence Leyland was born to Frederick Richards Leyland (age 27) and Frances Dawson (age 25).
On 03 Oct 1864 Charles Henry Gurney (age 30) and [her future sister-in-law] Alice Maria Prinsep (age 20) were married.
. Around 1873. James Abbott McNeill Whistler (age 38). Portrait of Miss Florence Leyland (age 13). Chalk and pastel.
. Before 1884. James Abbott McNeill Whistler (age 49). Portrait of Miss Florence Leyland (age 24). Chalk and pastel.
On 28 Jul 1884 Valentine Cameron Prinsep (age 46) and Florence Leyland (age 24) were married at St George's Church, Hanover Square. The difference in their ages was 21 years.
On 04 Jan 1892 [her father] Frederick Richards Leyland (age 60) died. He was buried at Brompton Cemetery where he has a monument designed by Edward Coley Burne-Jones 1st Baronet (age 58).
On Tuesday the 4th January 1892 the 60 year shipping magnate Frederick Richards Leyland was travelling on the Metropolitan Line with Colonel Robert Rainsford Jackson, the managing director of the National Telephone Company (of which Leyland was also president).. Within a few minutes of entering a first class carriage in Cannon Street Leyland was gasping for air and clutching his chest. At Mansion House station Colonel Jackson summoned the train’s guard for help. At Blackfriars the train was held in the platform whilst the Station Inspector, who suspected that Leyland was already dead, called for a stretcher and had him removed from his carriage and put in his office. A doctor was sent for who arrived at 5.15pm and confirmed the Inspectors suspicions, Leyland had died of a heart attack. An inquest was held on 7 January (“death by natural causes” the verdict) and the funeral at Brompton took place next day, on the Friday morning.
On 11 Nov 1904 [her husband] Valentine Cameron Prinsep (age 66) died. He was buried at Brompton Cemetery.
New York Times 13 Nov 1904. 13 Nov 1904. [her former husband] VAL PRINSEP (deceased), R. A., DEAD. Well-Known English Artist Was Born in India in 1838.
LONDON, Nov. 12.—Valantine Cameron Prinsep, R. A., better known as Val Prinsep, Professor of Painting to the Royal Academy, died yesterday from the effects of an operation.
It was thought in 1896 that Val Prinsep would be elected President of the Royal Academy, but Sir Edward Poynter was (age 68) the successful candidate.
Mr. Prinsep was born in India in 1838. but was educated in England, returning to the land of his birth in 1876 to paint what is perhaps his best-known work, the "Declaration of the Queen as Empress" at the famous Delhi Durbar. A pupil of Watts and Gleyre, Prinsep exhibited his first picture at the Academy in 1862, when he was twenty-four years old. He achieved rapid success and became an A. R. A. in and an R. A. in 1894. He was an author and playwright as well as a painter.
Mr. Prinsep married a daughter [Florence Leyland (age 45)] of the late F. R. Leyland, the patron ot Whistler and Rossetti. When Mr. Leyland died there was a good deal of criticism of the Prinseps because the "Peacock Room" in his London house was not preserved where the public could see it. This work of Whistler, who was a fellow-pupil of Prinsep under Gleyre, has recently been bought by an American.
In 1910 [her mother] Frances Dawson (age 76) died.
On 22 Nov 1919 [her former sister-in-law] Alice Maria Prinsep (age 75) died.
On 22 Jul 1921 Florence Leyland (age 61) died. She was buried with her husband [her former husband] Valentine Cameron Prinsep, who had died seventeen years before at Brompton Cemetery.
