Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Charlotte Whyte-Melville
Standard Name: Whyte-Melville, Charlotte
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Employer | George Egerton | In London she became the travelling-companion of Charlotte Whyte-Melville
, a widow now living as the wife of the Rev. Henry Peter Higginson
, who was a friend of John Joseph Dunne
, father of the future GE
. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | George Egerton | Chavelita Dunne (later GE
) eloped with the Rev. Henry Peter Higginson
(husband of her employer, Charlotte Whyte-Melville
). He bought an estate for them at Slottnaes Park in Langesund, Norway. Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. White, Terence de VereEditor , Richards Press, 1958. 16-17 |
| Friends, Associates | George Egerton | Charlotte Whyte-Melville
had been married to military and sporting novelist Major George Whyte-Melville
, who died in 1878. She was a widow when she met Higginson
(then her domestic chaplain, while she was his patroness)... |
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