Margaret (Mag/Peggy/Tippey) Elizabeth Fowke 1758 - 1836
Margaret (Mag/Peggy/Tippey) Elizabeth Fowke , Placed by her maternal uncle John Walsh, under the care of two ladies, Mrs Kitchen and Mrs Ledieu who mistreated her. She later went and lived with her brother, Francis when he was resident of Benares. She went to India in 1776 on the Camden. She returned to Europe with her brother in March 1786 on the Dublin. Her father bade her only to visit specified families when she went to India. These excluded Warren Hastings and included the Stracheys and Thackerays. She was a keen horsewoman and a dedicated mathematician. She was also an accomplished keyboard player. In Calcutta (1783). See a portrait : http://hdl.handle.net/10107/4702506 Englishwomen's Dress in Eighteenth Century India: The Margaret Fowke Correspondence (1776-1786) by Dilys E. Blum She left a memoir, now held by the British Library. Mss Eur IOR Neg 11670 BENN-WALSH (John ), 1st Baron Ormathwaite Memoir of Margaret Elizabeth Benn-Walsh (nee Fowke) (1758-1836) wife of John Benn (later Sir John Benn-Walsh), 1st Bart (1759-1825), East India Company servant, Bengal 1777-87, by her son John Benn-Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite. [See Photo Eur 032 for paper copy]. 1 reel 1758 - 1836 T. H. Bowyer, `Fowke, Joseph (1716-1800)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/63560, accessed 23 Sept 2005] "Your sister [Margaret] goes out now, I suppose, to get her a husband, which she has not beauty or fortune enough to get here" wrote Francis Fowke to his nephew, Francis F. in Bengal. (22 Nov 1775).
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| Born: 13th Aug 1758 | Baptised: St george's, hanover sq, London, , , England 16th Aug 1758
| | Died: Binfield Park, Berkshire, England 29th Sep 1836 | Buried:
| | Family: Fowke formerly of Brewood |
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