Biography of Georgiana Macdonald Lady Burne-Jones 1840-1920

Before 21 Jul 1840 [her father] Reverend George Browne Macdonald (age 35) and [her mother] Hannah Jones were married.

On 21 Jul 1840 Georgiana Macdonald Lady Burne-Jones was born to Reverend George Browne Macdonald (age 35) and Hannah Jones at Birmingham.

In 09 Jun 1856 [her future husband] Edward Coley Burne-Jones 1st Baronet (age 22) and Georgiana Macdonald Lady Burne-Jones (age 15) were engaged.

On 09 Jun 1860 Edward Coley Burne-Jones 1st Baronet (age 26) and Georgiana Macdonald Lady Burne-Jones (age 19) were married at Manchester Cathedral [Map].

On 21 Oct 1861 [her son] Philip Burne-Jones 2nd Baronet was born to [her husband] Edward Coley Burne-Jones 1st Baronet (age 28) and Georgiana Macdonald Lady Burne-Jones (age 21). He was baptised at Manchester Cathedral [Map] with his godfathers, by proxy, being John Ruskin (age 42) and Dante Gabriel Rossetti (age 33). See Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones.

1863. [her husband] Edward Coley Burne-Jones 1st Baronet (age 29). Portrait of his wife Georgiana Macdonald Lady Burne-Jones (age 22).

1864. [her husband] Edward Coley Burne-Jones 1st Baronet (age 30). Portrait of Jane Morris nee Burden (age 24), and his sisters-in-law [her sister] Alice Macdonald (age 26), [her sister] Agnes Macdonald Lady Poynter (age 21) and [her sister] Louisa Macdonald (age 19) listening to his wife Georgiana (age 23) reading aloud.

Alice Macdonald: On 04 Apr 1837 she was born to Reverend George Browne Macdonald and Hannah Jones at Birmingham. On 18 Mar 1865 John Lockwood Kipling and she were married at St Mary Abbots Church, Kensington. On 22 Nov 1910 she died. She was buried at St John's Church, Tisbury.

Louisa Macdonald: In 1845 she was born to Reverend George Browne Macdonald and Hannah Jones at Birmingham. In 1925 she died.

In 1864 [her son] Philip Burne-Jones 2nd Baronet (age 2) contracted scarlet fever which his mother Georgiana Macdonald Lady Burne-Jones (age 23) then contracted which bring about the premature birth of her second child who died soon afterwards.

Around Jul 1866 [her daughter] Margaret Burne-Jones was born to [her husband] Edward Coley Burne-Jones 1st Baronet (age 32) and Georgiana Macdonald Lady Burne-Jones (age 25) at 41 Kensington Square.

1868. [her husband] Edward Coley Burne-Jones 1st Baronet (age 34). "Woman's Head. Study of "Le Chant D'Amour". Probably his wife Georgiana Macdonald Lady Burne-Jones (age 27).

In 1868 [her father] Reverend George Browne Macdonald (age 63) died.

1870. Edward Poynter 1st Baronet (age 33). Portrait of Georgiana Macdonald Lady Burne-Jones (age 29).

1874. Frederick Hollyer (age 35). Photograph of the Burne-Jones and Morris families including William Morris (age 39), Jane Morris nee Burden (age 34), [her husband] Edward Coley Burne-Jones 1st Baronet (age 40) and Georgiana Macdonald Lady Burne-Jones (age 33).

From 1883. [her husband] Edward Coley Burne-Jones 1st Baronet (age 49). Portrait of his wife Georgiana Macdonald Lady Burne-Jones (age 42) and their children [her son] Philip Burne-Jones 2nd Baronet (age 21) and [her daughter] Margaret Burne-Jones (age 16).

Margaret Burne-Jones: Around Jul 1866 she was born to Edward Coley Burne-Jones 1st Baronet and Georgiana Macdonald Lady Burne-Jones at 41 Kensington Square. In 1953 she died.

1884. [her husband] Edward Coley Burne-Jones 1st Baronet (age 50). "King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid". Model probably the artists wife Georgiana Macdonald Lady Burne-Jones (age 43). Inspired by Tennyson's (age 74) poem The Beggar Maid. The painting was purchased Edward Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie 1st Earl Wharncliffe (age 56).

The London Gazette 26509. Whitehall, May 3, 1894

The Queen (age 74) has been pleased to direct Letters Patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, granting the dignity of a Baronet of the said United Kingdom unto [her husband] Edward Coley Burne Burne-Jones (age 60), of Rottingdean, in the county of Sussex, and of the Grange, in the parish of Fulham, in the county of London, Esquire, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten. [Note. Georgiana Macdonald Lady Burne-Jones (age 53) by marriage Lady Burne-Jones of Rottingdean in Sussex and The Grange in Fulham in London]

On 02 Feb 1920 Georgiana Macdonald Lady Burne-Jones (age 79) died.

Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones. Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones was written by his wife Georgiana Macdonald Lady Burne-Jones and published in 1906 by The Macmillan Company.

Edward Coley Burne-Jones 1st Baronet aged 37 from the portrait by George Frederick Watts.