Hon Mrs Tremayne

The Honourable Mary Charlotte Martha Vivian, the daughter of Charles Crepsigny Vivian, 2nd Baron Vivian, and his second wife, Mary Elizabeth Panton, was born in 1842 at Plas Gwyn, Pentraeth, Anglesey, North Wales. On 13 November 1860, she married John Tremayne of Heligan, Mevagissy, Cornwall. The couple had two sons, Perys Edmund (born 1866, died 1867), and John Claude Lewis, born 1869; and three daughters, Onera Mary Georgina (born 1861), Harriet Maud (born 1863), and Grace Damaris (born 1864).

The Honourable Mrs Tremayne died, aged 75, at Mount Tryon in Torquay on 30 October 1917. She left an estate valued at £10,543.

Photographed by Camille Silvy of London on 25 October 1860.

This image does not appear in the Silvy daybooks, but given that the set is so similar to that in her husband's portrait, this photograph was presumably taken as part of Mr Tremayne's sitting. The vase seen on the Elizabethan bookcase appears in only a few portraits in the daybooks, for a brief period between 17 October and 25 October 1860.

From an album belonging to the Gilbert family of Priory House, Bodmin, Cornwall. The album was most probably compiled by Marianne Charlotte Isabelle Gilbert, daughter of William Peters, banker, (of Beckenham Place Kent, later of Ashfold House, Slaugham, Crawley, Sussex), and wife of Colonel Walter Raleigh Gilbert (1813-1896). Her husband was the Chief Constable of the County of Cornwall, and a Lieutenant-Colonel, in 1861 of the Royal Artillery, but retired on half-pay, and later, of the 1st Cornwall Artillery Volunteers. The sitters in the portraits were all identified on the pages of the album, probably at a later date by their eldest daughter, Mary Marianne Gilbert, born in or about 1852 at Limerick, Ireland. She appears on the 1861 census, aged 9, visiting her grandparents at Slaugham. The 1881 census shows her, twenty-nine and unmarried, living at home with her parents.