On 23rd January 1865 Constance MacDonald "Connie" Gilchrist Countess Orkney was born to David Gilchrist in Agar Town, London.
1872 to 1874. James Abbott McNeill Whistler [aged 37]. "Blue Girl". Model Connie Gilchrist [aged 6].
In 1873 Constance MacDonald "Connie" Gilchrist Countess Orkney [aged 7] performed at the Drury Lane Theatre playing the Prince of Mushrooms in a play entitled, Jack in the Box.
Around 1873. James Abbott McNeill Whistler [aged 38]. "Harmony in Yellow and Gold". Model Connie Gilchrist [aged 7] performing her skipping rope stage act.
1875. Frederick Leighton 1st Baron Leighton [aged 44]. "Little Fatima". Model Connie Gilchrist [aged 9].
1876. Frederick Leighton 1st Baron Leighton [aged 45]. "The Daphnephoria". The model for all five girls centre Connie Gilchrist [aged 10].
Around 1876. Frederick Leighton 1st Baron Leighton [aged 45]. "Study: At a Reading Desk". Model Connie Gilchrist [aged 10].
Frederick Leighton Biography. 1877. Frederick Leighton 1st Baron Leighton [aged 46]. "The Music Lesson". Model originally Connie Gilchrist [aged 11] who was replaced by Isabella Helena "Lena" Pullen [aged 4]. See The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton.
Around 1878. Bassano Ltd. Photograph of Constance MacDonald "Connie" Gilchrist Countess Orkney [aged 12].
Before 1882 George Henry Lowther 4th Earl Lonsdale [aged 26] purchased a house for Connie Gilchrist [aged 16] and other girls of the Gaiety Theatre.
On 8th February 1882 George Henry Lowther 4th Earl Lonsdale [aged 26] died at a house in London he had purchased for Connie Gilchrist [aged 17] and other girls of the Gaiety Theatre. He bequeathed the house, and a sizeable legacy, to Gilchrist. His succeeded brother Hugh [aged 25] succeeded 5th Earl Lonsdale, 6th Viscount Lowther, 6th Baron Lowther. Grace Cecilie Gordon Countess Lonsdale [aged 27] by marriage Countess Lonsdale.
Chronicle of Abbot Ralph of Coggeshall
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On 21st October 1889 George FitzMaurice 6th Earl of Orkney [aged 62] died. [her future husband] Edmond Fitzmaurice 7th Earl of Orkney [aged 22] succeeded 7th Earl Orkney.
On 19th July 1892 Edmond Fitzmaurice 7th Earl of Orkney [aged 25] and Constance MacDonald "Connie" Gilchrist Countess Orkney [aged 27] were married.
On 9th May 1946 Constance MacDonald "Connie" Gilchrist Countess Orkney [aged 81] died at his her Tythe House, Stewkley.
On 21st August 1951 [her former husband] Edmond Fitzmaurice 7th Earl of Orkney [aged 84] died.
Frederick Leighton Biography. Meanwhile four of these beautiful children became useful to him as models. From the second daughter [Edith Ellen Pullen], who afterwards married an artist, Leighton painted "Memories," reproduced here; from the third, Hetty, he painted "Simœtha the Sorceress" and "Farewell"; but it was the youngest, Lina, quite a small child, who delighted him most, and who had a rare, refined charm which must have captivated any child-lover. She took the place of little Connie Gilchrist of the "Cleobouline," the "Music Lesson," and other of the earlier paintings, in the later pictures. She sat for "Sister's Kiss," "The Light of the Harem," "Letty," the sleeping group in "Cymon and Iphigenia," "Kittens," in the friezes "The Dance" and "Music," and "A little girl with golden hair and pale blue eyes" -
"Yellow and pale as ripened corn
Which Autumn's kiss frees—grain from sheath
Such was her hair, while her eyes beneath,
Showed Spring's faint violets freshly born."
Robert Browning.