Lady Alice Maria Taylour

Volume 1, page 135, sitting number 744. The Silvy daybooks identify the sitter as ‘Lady Alice Will’ but the surname has been amended to ‘Hill’ in pencil.

Lady Alice Maria Hill was the daughter of Sir Arthur Wills Blundell Sandys Trumbull Windsor Hill, from 12 April 1845 the 4th Marquess of Downshire, and his wife, Hon. Caroline Frances née Stapleton-Cotton. On 9 October 1867 she married Thomas Taylour, the son of Thomas Taylour, 3rd Marquess of Headfort. Her husband used the courtesy title ‘Earl of Bective’ but he died a year before his father and never succeeded to the marquisate.

The Countess of Bective died on 25 February 1928.