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Lady clementina hawarden photo names sk
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Clementina Maude, Viscountess Hawarden
British photographer (1822–1865)
Clementina Maude, Viscountess Hawarden (née Elphinstone Fleeming; 1 June 1822 – 19 January 1865),[1] commonly known as Lady Clementina Hawarden,[2][n 1] was a British amateur portrait photographer[3] of the Victorian era.
She produced over 800 photographs mostly of her adolescent daughters.[4][5]
Family
Clementina was born in Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, on 1 June 1822, the third of five children of Admiral Charles Elphinstone Fleeming (1774–1840), and Catalina Paulina Alessandro (1800–1880).[6][7]
Her father served in the Colombian war of independence, the Venezuelan war of independence, as well as the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars.
He was a member of parliament for Stirlingshire in 1802, and died when Clementina was age 18.[7]
In 1845, she married Cornwallis Maude, 4th Viscount Hawarden, who was an