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Name

Lucy Catherine Burton

Brief Biography

1840 - 1924, British / English

Description

Lucy Catherine Burton was the wearer of items in Glasgow Museums' dress collection. Lucy was born in 1840, the daughter of Langhorn Burton, a clergyman, and his wife, Charlotte and grew up with her two younger siblings, Langhorn and Harold, in Somersby, Lincolnshire. Lucy married Bennet Rothes Langton, a wealthy landowner, in 1865. At about this point Lucy appears to have started spelling her middle name Katherine. The couple's first child, Mabel Katherine Marion Burton Langton, was born the following year. In 1866-67 Bennet Rothes Langton commissioned their new home, Langton Hall, designed by James Fowler (1828-1892) at a cost of £8000 with gardens designed by James Veitch (1815-1869). Over the following years that family grew with Diana Charlotte Lee Mainwaring born in 1868, Dora Florence Geraldine in 1869, Bennet in 1870, Stephen in 1872, Adela Kathleen in 1874, Enid Muriel in 1876 and Algernon Charles Mainwaring in 1879. The family became an established gentry family with Bennet Rothes Langton serving first as a Justice of the Peace and later as a magistrate. The Censuses record that the family kept a number of servants over the years, including a cook, lady's maid and various other maids as well as a governess. By 1901 Lucy appears to have been calling herself by her middle name, Katherine, as its this name that is recorded in the Census for 1901 and 1911. She died on 23 June 1924.