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Elizabeth Dumaresq
Charles Matthews: export from Ralph Darling
[[File:Eliza Darling.jpg|thumb|Eliza Darling, 1825 portrait by [[John Linnell]]]]
'''Eliza, Lady Darling''' (1798–1868), born '''Elizabeth Dumaresq''', was a British philanthropist and artist. She was the wife of Sir [[Ralph Darling]], Governor of [[New South Wales]].
==Life==
On 13 October 1817, Darling married the 19-year-old [[Elizabeth Dumaresq]], known as Eliza (born in [[Macau]] on 10 November 1798, died 3 September 1868). She was the daughter of Colonel John Dumaresq, a landowner in [[Shropshire]]. The marriage was a happy one.<ref name="DNB"/> Of ten children, four daughters and three sons survived to adulthood.<ref name="Moore"></ref>
Eliza's widowed mother Ann Dumaresq was a devout philanthropist, and lived in [[Cheltenham]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> Eliza was influenced by [[Hannah More]] and [[Sarah Trimmer]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> In Australia, she consulted the penal reformer [[Elizabeth Fry]], with reference in particular to female convicts. She was also involved in the establishment of the Female School of Industry at [[Parramatta]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
===The family in England===
After Darling's position in New South Wales ended, the family returned to England. They lived at Cheltenham, then Brighton where Darling died in 1858. Eliza lived subsequently at [[Hurstpierpoint]] and then [[Pembury]]. She settled at The Ridge, [[Colemans Hatch]] in East Sussex, with her son Frederick and two of her daughters.<ref name="DAAO"></ref> This house near [[Hartfield]] had been built by Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood, sister of [[Emma Darwin]], who lived there to 1862. She had added a small school.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> The school continued as Lady Darling's School, under a Miss Deane.<ref></ref>
Eliza, Lady Darling died at Hartfield in 1868.<ref name="Moore"/>
===Cornelia Maria===
The Darling's daughter Cornelia Maria married in 1846 [[Sir Francis John Ford, 3rd Baronet]] (1818–1850).<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> Ford was a captain in the [[Bombay Regiment]]: the couple were married in England by Frederick Darling, and Cornelia returned from India after Ford's death on [[Malta]], with a son of six months, their second son, who became the [[Sir Francis Colville Ford, 4th Baronet|4th Baronet]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> They had adopted [[Francina Sorabji]] when she was 12 years old.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
Lady Ford died in 1896 at The Ridge, aged 77.<ref></ref>
===Frederick===
The eldest son, Frederick (born 1821) was instructed in New South Wales by [[William Cowper (Archdeacon of Cumberland)|William Cowper]], while his siblings were kept at home. He was educated at [[Oriel College, Oxford]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> When he was young, pulmonary symptoms were enough for his mother to decide he should be allowed to go into the Church, rather than the army as his father would have preferred.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> After Oxford he became in 1845 a curate at Trinity Church, [[Tewkesbury]], where Edward Walwyn Foley was the incumbent.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref><ref>[[s:Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Foley, Edward Walwyn]]</ref> In later life he gave services in the Ridge Chapel, at the west end of the parish of Hartfield, Sussex, and built by the Darling family.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
[[Category:1798 births]]
[[Category:1868 deaths]]
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