Emily Georgiana Finch-Hatton, Countess of Winchilsea

Emily Georgiana Finch-Hatton, Countess of Winchilsea and Nottingham (née Bagot; 9 July 1809 - 10 July 1848[1]) was the second of six daughters of Sir Charles Bagot, G.C.B. and Mary Charlotte Anne Wellesley-Pole.[2] She was second wife of George Finch-Hatton, 10th Earl of Winchilsea, whom she married on 15 February 1837. The couple did not have any children.[1]

Monument to Emily Georgiana, Countess of Winchilsea (detail) by Lawrence MacDonald, 1850, Victoria and Albert Museum

She died at Haverholme Priory in Ewerby on 10 July 1848[3] and was buried in the chancel of Ewerby Church in Lincolnshire.[4]

The Scottish sculptor Lawrence Macdonald was commissioned to make a monument to her, which was finished in 1850. It stood in the south porch of St Mary's Church, Eastwell which was subsequently converted into a chapel.[5] In the 1960s it was given to the Victoria and Albert Museum by the Rector and Church wardens of the Parish of Eastwell and is now on display in the Dorothy and Michael Hintze Galleries.[4]

The scroll which her statue is holding reads, in capitals: I am happy indeed happy in the word God is waiting for me.[4] The text around the plinth of the monument, also written in capitals, reads:

I
When the knell rung for the dying
Soundeth for me
And my corse coldly is lying
Neath the green tree

II
When the turf strangers are heaping
Covers my breast
Comes not to gaze on me weeping
I am at rest

III
All my life coldly and sadly
The days have gone by
I who dreamed wildly and madly
Am happy to die

IV
Long since my heart has been breaking
Its pain is past
A time has been set to its aching
Peace comes at last
— E.G. W.& N.

References

Lodge 1859.
"Bagot, Sir Charles". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
"Hatton, George William Finch-, tenth earl of Winchilsea and fifth earl of Nottingham". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
"Monument to Emily Georgiana, Lady Winchilsea". V&A Collections. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
Physick 1970.

Sources

Lodge, Edmund (1859). Lodge's Peerage and Baronetage (knightage & Companionage) of the British Empire. Hurst & Blackett.
Physick, John (1970). "Five Monuments from Eastwell". Victoria & Albert Museum Yearbook, II. Phaidon Press. pp. 135–136.
"Bagot, Sir Charles". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/1037. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
"Hatton, George William Finch-, tenth earl of Winchilsea and fifth earl of Nottingham". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9447. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
"Monument to Emily Georgiana, Lady Winchilsea". V&A Collections. Retrieved 15 September 2023.

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[FOOTNOTELodge1859-1] Lodge 1859.

[2] "Bagot, Sir Charles". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[3] "Hatton, George William Finch-, tenth earl of Winchilsea and fifth earl of Nottingham". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[V&A-4] "Monument to Emily Georgiana, Lady Winchilsea". V&A Collections. Retrieved 15 September 2023.

[FOOTNOTEPhysick1970-5] Physick 1970.