Cpt. Edward Joseph Hill Jekyll
Captain Edward Joseph Hill Jekyll, The Grenadier Guards, of Bramley House, Bramley, Surrey and later of Wargrave Hill, Henley-on-Thames, educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford.
Joined the Navy as a Cadet on H.M.S. Cossack on 14 Sep 1854, drowned in the wreck of H.M.S. Orpheus off Manukau Harbour on the west coast of New Zealand on 7 Feb 1863.
Of Munstead Wood, Godalming, the well-known gardener and garden designer. Died unmarried.
Of Munstead, Godalming, Minor Canon of Worcester Cathedral 1877-79, Chaplain of Malta 1879, friend of Robert Louis Stevenson (who borrowed the family name for his book Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde), author of Jamaica Song.
Heir to the Tedworth Estate at the death of his aunt Mrs Assheton-Smith.
Births: "At Charlton Marshall, February the 14th, the Lady of George Sloane Stanley, Esq, of a son."
Source: Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle etc (Portsmouth, England), Monday, February 24, 1840; Issue 2107.
Births: "On the 2rd instant, at Hamble Green, Mrs. George Sloane Stanley, of a daughter".
Source: Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle etc (Portsmouth, England), Saturday, November 11, 1848; Issue 2562.