Lady Barker (Mary Anne Barker)

Mary Anne Stewart was born in 1831 in Spanish Town, the eldest daughter of the last secretary of the island of Jamaica, and was sent to England at the age of two. Married around 1852 to an artillery officer knighted for his conduct during the Indian revolt, she joined him in Bengal in 1860 and lost him the following year. Remarried in 1865 to Frederick Napier Broome, she followed him to New Zealand, leaving her two sons in England, then to the colonies where he was appointed, and died in London in 1911.

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