Charlotte Anne Eaton
Charlotte Anne Eaton (1788–1859), née Waldie, was an English banker, travel writer, memoirist and novelist.
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| Born | Charlotte Anne Waldie 28 September 1788 |
| Died | 28 April 1859 |
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Life
Born on 28 September 1788, she was second daughter of George Waldie of Hendersyde Park, Roxburghshire, by his wife Ann, eldest daughter of Jonathan Ormston of Newcastle-upon-Tyne; her youngest sister, Jane Watts (1793–1826), was known as a writer and artist.[1]
On 22 August 1822, she married Stephen Eaton (1780–1834) of Ketton Hall, Rutland. Her husband was a partner in the Eaton, Cayley & Co. Bank in Stamford (later The Stamford, Spalding and Boston Banking Co.). She carried on the business as senior partner after the death of her husband until her own death.[2] The Stamford, Spalding and Boston bank was amalgamated into Barclays in 1911.
Eaton died at 17, Hanover Square, Westminster, on 28 April 1859.[1]
Works
In June 1815 Waldie was on a family visit to Brussels, coinciding with the Waterloo campaign. She and her sister, Jane Waldie, wrote an account of her experiences, published in 1817 under the title of Narrative of a Residence in Belgium, during the Campaign of 1815, and of a Visit to the Field of Waterloo.[3] A second edition was published in 1853 as The Days of Battle, or Quatre Bras and Waterloo; by an Englishwoman resident in Brussels in June 1815. The edition of 1888 was entitled Waterloo Days. The book was heavily quoted by Augustus Hare.[1]
In 1820 she published anonymously, in three volumes, Rome in the Nineteenth Century: containing a complete account of the ruins of the ancient city, the remains of the Middle Ages and the monuments of modern times : with remarks on the fine arts, on the state of society, and on the religious ceremonies, manners and customs of the modern Romans : in a series of letters written during a residence at Rome in the years 1817 and 1818;[4] second and third editions appeared respectively in 1822 and 1823. A fifth edition, in two volumes, was published in 1852, and a sixth in 1860.
As Mrs Eaton, she wrote:[1]
- Continental Adventures, a story, London, 1826, 3 vols.
- At Home and Abroad, a novel, London, 1831, 3 vols.
Family
In 1822, Charlotte Waldie married Stephen Eaton, a banker of Ketton Hall, Rutland; he died on 25 September 1834.[1] They had two sons and two daughters. Charles Ormston Eaton (1827–1907) was a son.
Notes
- Lee, Sidney, ed. (1899). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 59. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- Dawes, Margaret; Selwyn, Nesta (2010). Women Who Made Money: Women Partners in British Private Banks 1752-1906. Trafford. p. 89. ISBN 978-1426937255.
- Eaton, Charlotte Anne; Watts, Jane Waldie (1817). Narrative of a Residence in Belgium During the Campaign of 1815: And of a Visit to the Field of Waterloo. J. Murray.
- Eaton, Charlotte Anne (1826). Rome in the Nineteenth Century. Constable and Co, Edinburgh.
Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1899). "Waldie, Charlotte Ann". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 59. London: Smith, Elder & Co. - Taylor, Clare L. "Eaton [née Waldie], Charlotte Anne". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/28447. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)