LORD LILFORD 



the group. Her picture had been painted by 

 Mr. Watts, and (although it may be a fanciful 

 mind to which such a thought occurs) it seems 

 as if some prophetic insight on the part of the 

 artist, had led him to impart to the beautiful 

 face a look of sadness which did not rest upon it 

 at that early period. Her marriage with my 

 brother, which took place on June 14, 1859, was 

 a very happy one, but to my sister-in-law it was 

 saddened and rendered anxious by the frequent 

 attacks of illness to which her husband became 

 subject. The prophetically sorrowful expression 

 that haunts the eyes in the picture of earlier 

 years, received its full justification in the heart- 

 breaking sorrow that came to her in 1882, in the 

 death of her eldest son, a bright and charming 

 young man of twenty-one. 1 She never re- 

 covered from this unexpected blow, and died in 

 1884. 



I have mentioned my brother's frequent 

 attacks of illness. The hereditary enemy, gout, 

 coming from the Fox as well as the Powys 

 side of the family, claimed him as its victim 



1 Her remaining sons are John fifth Lord Lilford, and Hon. 

 Stephen Powys. 



