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[Justin Kirby]

I've been trying to work out who's who in my great great aunt Agnes Fox's scrapbook and there's lots of photos of the Shuttleworth family, inlcuding Dorothy Shuttleworth

Dorothy married Archibald Knightley Graham:

http://thepeerage.com/p1460.htm#i14595

There’s a portrait of Dorothy (Mrs Archie Graham) painted by the famous Hungarian artist Philip de Lászlo (1869-1937). In the painting she wears a Victorian diamond brooch which was sold not long ago by Bonhams.

The catalogue notes explain that Dorothy was renowned for her great beauty as a young women in India, and was known by her peers as “The Belle of Bombay”. She married Archie Graham in In 1910. He was director of John Graham & Co, dealers in jute and other raw materials from the Indian subcontinent, and they lived in Airthrey Castle and London. In 1919, Dorothy returned to India for a couple of years with her husband where their third daughter was born, before returning to London.

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=zacchai&id=I01504

The Roots web link suggest that she was born about 1848.

Archibald Knightly Graham
Birth: 28 FEB 1882 in of, Airthrey Castle, Stirling, Scotland
Death: AFT 1939 in of, Stirling, Scotland

Archie and Dorothy had 4 children, 2 living:

Phoebe Hermione Graham b: 14 NOV 1911 in of, Stirling, Scotland
http://thepeerage.com/p1460.htm#i14595
Dorothy Noel Graham b: 28 DEC 1912 in of, Stirling, Scotland

Archie's parents were:

Donald Graham
Birth: 31 MAY 1844 in of, Skelmorlie Cast., Ayr, Scotland
Death: 23 JAN 1901 in of, Airthrey Castle, Stirling, Scotland
http://thepeerage.com/p32481.htm#i324804

Gertrude Lawrence Clara Dunsterville
Birth: ABT 1850 in of, Stirling or, Ayr, Scotland
Death: 20 APR 1932 in of, Airthrey Castle, Stirling, Scotland

Donald and Gertrude had the following children:

James Dunsterville Graham b: 15 MAY 1873 in of, Airthrey Castle, Stirling, Scotland
Donald Hatt Noble Graham b: 12 NOV 1874 in of, Airthrey Castle, Stirling, Scotland: http://thepeerage.com/p32485.htm#i324849
Charles Townley Graham b: 2 DEC 1877 in of, Airthrey Castle, Stirling, Scotland
Archibald Knightly Graham b: 28 FEB 1882 in of, Airthrey Castle, Stirling, Scotland:
http://thepeerage.com/p1460.htm#i14595
Maurice Dunsterville Graham b: 2 JAN 1888 in of, Airthrey Castle, Stirling, Scotland
http://genealogy.links.org/links-cgi/readged?/home/ben/camilla-genealogy/current+c-graham90653+2-2-0-1-0
John Malise Graham b: 28 JUN 1892 in of, Airthrey Castle, Stirling, Scotland
Nigel Graham b: 8 JUL 1893 in of, Airthrey Castle, Stirling, Scotland
Patrick Ludovick Graham b: 2 APR 1898 in of, Airthrey Castle, Stirling, Scotland


Dorothy's sister was Emmie and there's a portrait of her (Mrs St John Graham) by Sir John Lavery RA RSA RHA (1856-1941). The catalogue notes explain:

"Born Emmie Mary Shuttleworth (1878-1942) she was the eldest of the thirteen children of Allen Thorton Shuttleworth (1839-1915) and Laura Phoebe Shuttleworth (nee Betham, 1855-1926). She married John St John Graham of Carfin in Lanarkshire."
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I started a family history blog to try and find out a little more about our mysterious great great great grandfather George Goldsmith Kirby. I haven't got much further in this direction have joined a few dots on The Peerage site.