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This sitter was born Elizabeth Jackson Herbert, only child of John Herbert of Totnes, Devon, who served for some time as Governor of what was then Prince of Wales Island, now Penang, Malaysia. On 23rd January 1783 she first married in London to Philip Mannington (b.1742) and had a son Philip (1783–1806) and a daughter Elizabeth Palmer Mannington (1785–1852). The latter was born at Bencoolen, Sumatra, of which Philip senior was then Governor, though he died at Calcutta on 1st April 1796. On 2nd August 1796 Elizabeth remarried, apparently at Madras (or at least in the Madras presidency), to Lieutenant Benjamin William Page (1765–1845), then commanding the sloop 'Hobart' on the East Indies Station. She presumably returned to England with him in 1797, though he saw further foreign service until finally returning again from India as flag-captain to Vice-Admiral Peter Rainier in the 'Trident' (64) in 1805.
The couple thereafter lived at Ipswich (his birthplace). They had no children and Elizabeth died there on 30th November 1834, when her husband was a retired vice-admiral. He rose to admiral in 1841 and presented his own late portrait in that rank, by Robert Hannah, to Ipswich shortly before his death there, where he and his wife are commemorated on a plain marble tablet in the church of St Mary-le-Tower.
Elizabeth's son, Philip Mannington junior, was Assistant Secretary and Paymaster on Prince of Wales Island by 1804 and to his death there, unmarried, on 13th June 1806. His sister Elizabeth died unmarried at Steyning, Sussex, on 22nd June 1852.
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More informationTitle
Mrs Benjamin W. Page
Date
c.1820
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 29.5 x W 24.5 cm
Accession number
R.1966-43
Acquisition method
gift from E. Jerwood
Work type
Painting