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On 24th June 1826 [her father] Frederic Leighton (age 26) and [her mother] Augusta Susan Nash (age 21) were married.
On 23rd November 1828 Alexandra Leighton was born to [her father] Frederic Leighton (age 29) and [her mother] Augusta Susan Nash (age 23).
1853. [her brother] Frederick Leighton 1st Baron Leighton (age 22). Portrait of Alexandra Leighton (age 24), the artist's sister.
On 7th March 1857 Major Sutherland George Gordon Orr (age 41) and Alexandra Leighton (age 28) were married at Bath, Somerset [Map]. He died fifteen months later.
On 19th June 1858 [her husband] Major Sutherland George Gordon Orr (age 42) died. The Newspapers reported On Saturday, the 19th inst., at midnight, at the residence of his brother-in-law, Greenhill, near Barnet, Herts, Major Sutherland G. G. Orr, late commanding the 3rd Regiment of Hyderabad Cavalry, aged 42. This gallant and distinguished officer succumbed, after several months of severe suffering, to the results of anxiety, fatigue, and exposure of the last Mhow and Central India Campaign.
In 1859 [her father] Frederic Leighton (age 59) and [her mother] Augusta Susan Nash (age 54) travelled to Florence with their daughters Gussie and the recently widowed1 Alexandra aka Lina (age 30).
Note 1. Her husband [her former husband] Major Sutherland George Gordon Orr (age 42) had died on 19th June 1858.
In 1865 [her mother] Augusta Susan Nash (age 60) died.
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1889. [her brother] Frederick Leighton 1st Baron Leighton (age 58). Portrait of Alexandra Leighton (age 60), the artist's sister.
1892. [her brother] Frederick Leighton 1st Baron Leighton (age 61). Portrait of Alexandra Leighton (age 63), the artist's sister.
On 24th January 1892 [her father] Frederic Leighton (age 92) died at 11 Kensington-park-gardens.
[her father] Leighton, Frederic Septimus, of 11 Kensington Park Gardens, Middlesex, M.D. died 24 January 1892, Probate London 1 March [1892], to Sir [her brother] Frederic Leighton (age 61), baronet, P.R.A., and Alexandra Orr (age 63), and [her sister] Augusta Newnburg Matthews (age 56), widows. Effects £65,929 6s. 4d.
On 25th January 1896 [her brother] Frederick Leighton 1st Baron Leighton (age 65) died. Baron Leighton of Stretton in Shropshire and Baronet Leighton of Holland Park Road in St Mary Abbots in Kensington in Middlesex extinct. He left Ada Alice "Dorothy Dene" Pullen (age 37) £5,000, plus another £5,000 in trust for herself and her sisters; the largest bequest he made.
On 23rd August 1903 Alexandra Leighton (age 74) died at 11 Kensington Park Gardens.
GrandFather: James Bonifcae Leighton
Father: Frederic Leighton
Great x 1 Grandfather: Edward l'Anson
GrandMother: Frances l'Anson