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Frances Elinor (Elinor) Grant (1838–1857)
Frances Elinor (Elinor) Colvile (1857–1919)

1838–1919

Eldest daughter of John Peter and Henrietta Chichele Grant of Rothiemurchus, Scotland, and sister of Jane Maria Strachey. Married James William Colvile in Calcutta in 1857. They returned to London in 1859, and their home became a meeting place for writers and artists.

Source

ODNB s.v. Colvile, James William.

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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