3-078-236 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Dowager Marchioness of Ely, 1890. Engraving from a photograph by Messrs. W. and D. Downey. 'The Dowager Marchioness of Ely, whose death, on June 11, is noticed in the ''Court Circular" with a testimony of the Queen's personal regard and regret for the loss of her old and intimate friend, was the fourth daughter of the late Mr. J. J. Hope Vere, and niece of the eighth Marquis of Tweeddale, and was born in 1821. In 1844 she married the third Marquis of Ely, who died in 1857, by whom she had two children - a son, who became fourth Marquis of Ely, and died last year; and a daughter, Lady Marion Jane Buchanan. She was appointed a Lady of the Bedchamber in 1851, and retained that appointment till last year, when she resigned in consequence of failing health. This lady enjoyed in the fullest degree her Majesty's confidence, and three years ago she went to India to transact business in which the Queen was specially interested. Since Lady Ely's retirement from Court the Queen has visited her in London. The funeral was on Monday, June 16, in the Kensal-green Cemetery'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.