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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
In 1827 Bowerswell House, Kinnoul [Map] was sold to [her father] George Gray (age 29). The house had previously been rented by John Thomas Ruskin which connection brought the Ruskin and Gray familes together. [her future husband] John Ruskin (age 7) visited Kinnoul during his childhood staying with his 'Aunt Jessie' who lived at Tayside House, Kinnoul [Map]. George Grays daughter Effie Gray was born, and spent her childhood, there.
George Gray: In 1798 he was born. Before 7th May 1828 he and Sophia Margaret Jameson were married. They had fifteen children. In 1877 he died.
John Thomas Ruskin: In 1809 Bowerswell House, Kinnoul.
Before 7th May 1828 [her father] George Gray (age 30) and [her mother] Sophia Margaret Jameson (age 20) were married. They had fifteen children.
On 7th May 1828 Effie Gray was born to George Gray (age 30) and Sophia Margaret Jameson (age 20) at Bowerswell House, Kinnoul [Map].
On 10th April 1848 John Ruskin (age 29) and Effie Gray (age 19) were married at Bowerswell House, Kinnoul [Map]; her childhood home.
On 20th June 1850 Effie Gray (age 22), wife of [her husband] John Ruskin (age 31), 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). "Effie (age 24) with Foxgloves in her hair". On display at Wightwick Manor, Wolverhampton. On display at Wightwick Manor, Wolverhampton.
1853 to 1854. [her future husband] John Everett Millais 1st Baronet (age 23). "Waterfall, or Effie (age 24) at Glenfinlas".
The Diary of George Price Boyce 1853. 6th January 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 somewhat egotistical and little real, his attention being easily distracted. He jerked out some good remarks. Spoke highly of [her husband] Ruskin (age 33) as a friend of Art; said that Mrs. R (age 24). was sitting for one of his pictures1. Hunt 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 7th March 1854 Effie Gray (age 25) wrote to her father: "... To go back to the day of my marriage I went as you know away to the Highlands. I had never been told the duties of married persons to each other and knew little or nothing about their relations in the closest union on earth. For days John [[her husband] John Ruskin (age 35)] talked about this relation to me but avowed no intention of making me his Wife. He alleged various reasons, hatred to children, religious motives, a desire to preserve my beauty, and finally this last year told me his true reason (and this to me is as villainous as all the rest) that he had imagined women were quite different to what he saw I was, and that the reason he did not make me his Wife was because he was disgusted with my person ... then he said he would marry me when I was twenty five. This last year we spoke about it, he then said as I professed quite a dislike to him that it would be SINFUL to enter into such a connection, as if I was not very wicked I was at least insane and the responsibility that I might have children was too great, as I was quite unfit to bring them ..."
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
On 15th July 1854 the marriage of John Ruskin (age 35) and Effie Gray (age 26) annulled by the Commissary Court of Surrey on the grounds of John Ruskin being "incapable of consummating the same [marriage] by reason of incurable impotency".
On 30th July 1854 the Session Kinnoull Parish Church [Map] 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 former 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".
The Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais V1 Chapter 8. On July 3rd, 1855, [her husband] John Everett Millais (age 26) was married to Euphemia Chalmers Gray (age 27), eldest daughter of Mr. George Gray, of Bowerswell, Perth1. In accordance with the Scottish custom, the wedding took place in the drawingroom at Bowerswell [Map], and immediately afterwards came the baptism of the bride's youngest brother, between whom and his eldest sister there was a difference in age of nearly twenty-six years.
Note 1. Miss Gray had been previously married, but that marriage had been annulled in 1854, on grounds sanctioned equally by Church and State. Both good taste and feeling seem to require that no detailed reference should be made to the circumstances attending that annulment. But, on behalf of those who loved their mother well, it may surely be said that during the course of the judicial proceedings instituted by her, and throughout the period of the void marriage and the whole of her after years, not one word could be, or ever was, uttered impugning the correctness and purity of her life.
On 3rd July 1855 John Everett Millais 1st Baronet (age 26) and Euphemia "Effie" Gray Lady Millais (age 27) were married at Bowerswell House, Kinnoul [Map]; see Life and Letters of Millais. They spent their two-week honeymoon in Argyleshire, Bute and Arran - see Life and Letters of Millais.
Around 1856, or sometime before, [her husband] John Everett Millais 1st Baronet (age 26) and Euphemia "Effie" Gray Lady Millais (age 27), lived at Annat Lodge, Kinnoul [Map].
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 30th 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) at Annat Lodge, Kinnoul [Map]. Millais wrote to his cousin: "Just a line to say that I am the distinguished owner of a little gentleman. The nurse, of course, says it is like me, adding that it is an extremely handsome production! But what nurse does not say the same thing? However, it has blue eyes and a little downy brown on the top of its head."
The Diary of George Price Boyce 1855-1857. 30th June 1857. Wm. Rossetti (age 27) told me that [her former husband] Roughskin (age 38) had married his wife [Euphemia "Effie" Gray Lady Millais (age 29)] when she was very ill ....
On 19th September 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 House, Kinnoul [Map].
The Diary of George Price Boyce 1855-1857. 19th November 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 former 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?
Around 1858. George Herbert Watkins (age 30). Photograph of Effie Gray (age 29).
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).
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
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).
1861. John and Charles Watkins (age 33). Photograph of Effie Gray (age 32).
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).
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.
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 18th September 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).
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)
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1873. [her husband] John Everett Millais 1st Baronet (age 43). Portrait of Euphemia "Effie" Gray Lady Millais (age 44).
In 1877 [her father] George Gray (age 79) died.
On 30th August 1878 [her son] George Millais (age 20) died at Bowerswell House, Kinnoul [Map].
5th April 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.
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
After July 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 [her husband] John Everett Millais 1st Baronet (age 52) and Euphemia "Effie" Gray Lady Millais (age 53).
On 16th July 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 10th April 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 [her husband] 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 13th August 1896 [her husband] John Everett Millais 1st Baronet (age 67) died. His son [her son] Everett (age 40) succeeded 2nd Baronet Millais of Palace Gate in Kensington in Middlesex.
On 7th September 1897 [her son] Everett Millais 2nd Baronet (age 41) died. His son [her grandson] John (age 8) succeeded 3rd Baronet Millais of Palace Gate in Kensington in Middlesex.
On 23rd December 1897 Euphemia "Effie" Gray Lady Millais (age 69) died at Bowerswell House, Kinnoul [Map]. She was buried at Kinnoull Parish Church [Map] next to her son [her son] George Millais.
On 20th January 1900 [her former husband] John Ruskin (age 80) died.
Father: George Gray
Euphemia "Effie" Gray Lady Millais
GrandFather: Andrew Jameson
Mother: Sophia Margaret Jameson
