On 24th June 1826 [her father] Frederic Leighton [aged 26] and [her mother] Augusta Susan Nash [aged 21] were married.
On 23rd November 1828 Alexandra Leighton was born to Frederic Leighton [aged 29] and Augusta Susan Nash [aged 23].
1853. [her brother] Frederick Leighton 1st Baron Leighton [aged 22]. Portrait of Alexandra Leighton [aged 24], the artist's sister.
On 7th March 1857 Major Sutherland George Gordon Orr [aged 41] and Alexandra Leighton [aged 28] were married at Bath, Somerset [Map]. He died fifteen months later.
On 19th June 1858 [her husband] Major Sutherland George Gordon Orr [aged 42] died. The Newspapers reported On Saturday, the 19th inst., at midnight, at the residence of his brother-in-law, Greenhill, near Barnet, Herts, Major Sutherland G. G. Orr, late commanding the 3rd Regiment of Hyderabad Cavalry, aged 42. This gallant and distinguished officer succumbed, after several months of severe suffering, to the results of anxiety, fatigue, and exposure of the last Mhow and Central India Campaign.
In 1859 [her father] Frederic Leighton [aged 59] and [her mother] Augusta Susan Nash [aged 54] travelled to Florence with their daughters Gussie and the recently widowed1 Alexandra aka Lina [aged 30].
Note 1. Her husband Major Sutherland George Gordon Orr [aged 42] had died on 19th June 1858.
In 1865 [her mother] Augusta Susan Nash [aged 60] died.
1889. [her brother] Frederick Leighton 1st Baron Leighton [aged 58]. Portrait of Alexandra Leighton [aged 60], the artist's sister.
1892. [her brother] Frederick Leighton 1st Baron Leighton [aged 61]. Portrait of Alexandra Leighton [aged 63], the artist's sister.
On 24th January 1892 [her father] Frederic Leighton [aged 92] died at 11 Kensington-park-gardens.
[her father] Leighton, Frederic Septimus, of 11 Kensington Park Gardens, Middlesex, M.D. died 24 January 1892, Probate London 1 March [1892], to Sir [her brother] Frederic Leighton [aged 61], baronet, P.R.A., and Alexandra Orr [aged 63], and [her sister] Augusta Newnburg Matthews [aged 56], widows. Effects £65,929 6s. 4d.
Abbot John Whethamstede’s Chronicle of the Abbey of St Albans
Abbot John Whethamstede's Register aka Chronicle of his second term at the Abbey of St Albans, 1451-1461, is a remarkable text that describes his first-hand experience of the beginning of the Wars of the Roses including the First and Second Battles of St Albans, 1455 and 1461, respectively, their cause, and their consequences, not least on the Abbey itself. His text also includes Loveday, Blore Heath, Northampton, the Act of Accord, Wakefield, and Towton, and ends with the Coronation of King Edward IV. In addition to the events of the Wars of the Roses, Abbot John, or his scribes who wrote the Chronicle, include details in the life of the Abbey such as charters, letters, land exchanges, visits by legates, and disputes, which provide a rich insight into the day-to-day life of the Abbey, and the challenges faced by its Abbot.
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On 25th January 1896 [her brother] Frederick Leighton 1st Baron Leighton [aged 65] died. Baron Leighton of Stretton in Shropshire and Baronet Leighton of Holland Park Road in St Mary Abbots in Kensington in Middlesex extinct. He left Ada Alice "Dorothy Dene" Pullen [aged 37] £5,000, plus another £5,000 in trust for herself and her sisters; the largest bequest he made.
On 23rd August 1903 Alexandra Leighton [aged 74] died at 11 Kensington Park Gardens.
GrandFather: James Bonifcae Leighton
Father: Frederic Leighton
Great x 1 Grandfather: Edward l'Anson
GrandMother: Frances l'Anson