Emily Augusta Durand

DURAND, Lady (Emily/Emilia Augusta, née Allnatt). b. Shrewsbury, 1832 (baptised 18 May); d. Grindelwald, Switzerland, 29 March 1905. She was born Emilia Allnatt, daughter of a Barrister-at-Law of Shrewsbury. In 1855 she married the Revd Henry Stedman Polehampton, curate of St Chad’s, Shrewsbury. The marriage depended upon his obtaining preferment, which he was unable to do in England. He therefore applied to work in India, and was appointed to Lucknow in 1856, acting as chaplain to the British regiments there, as well as incumbent of the city church. He died in 1857 at the siege of Lucknow in the Indian mutiny, during which she nursed the sick and wounded with great courage. In 1859 she...