Charlotte Gilding, Lady Iliffe (1881 -1972)

Cecil Stuart Jameson (b.Christchurch 1883). Oil painting on canvas, Charlotte Gilding, Lady Iliffe (1881-1972) by Cecil Jameson (1883 - 1962), signed, lower left: Cecil/ Jameson. A three-quarter length portrait of Charlotte, Lady Iliffe, seated, facing the spectator, her hands clasped and held in her lap. She wears a pearl-grey dress and a loose jacket of cream silk with black details on the cuffs and collar. She wears a three-strand pearl necklace and drop earrings. There is a ring with a blue stone on the third finger of her left hand. Her brown hair is fastened up in a style of the 1930s. Her clothes also indicate a date of this period. She is set against a dark background. She was the daughter of Henry Gilding of Gateacre, near Liverpool. On 18 January 1902, she married Sir Edward Mauger Iliffe 1st Baron Iliffe (1877-1960) son of William Isaac Iliffe and Annette Coker. Her husband was created 1st Baron Iliffe of Yattenden in 1933. He was a British newspaper magnate, public servant and Conservative Member of Parliament. She survived her husband as Dowager Baroness Illiffe (1960-1972). Lady Iliffe died at Yattenden Court, near Newbury in Berkshire, aged ninety on 18 January 1972. She left three children: the Hon. Kathleen Iliffe (d.1988), Edward Langton Iliffe, 2nd Baron Iliffe (1908-1996) and the Hon. William Henry Richard Iliffe (1911-1959). Basildon Park, Berkshire (Accredited Museum)