Author: Caulfeild, Frances Sally
Biography:
CAULFEILD, Frances Sally, formerly IRWIN (1796-1841: ancestry.co.uk)
She was born in 1796, possibly at Clifton, Bristol, the daughter of Eyles Irwin (q.v.), an East India Company superintendant, poet, and travel writer, and his wife Honoria Brooke (1751-1848). (His Odes and foreign topographical poetry have been unjustly neglected.) After his death on 12 Aug. 1817, she married Lt. Edwin Toby Caulfeild, R. N. (1793-1881) at St. Andrew’s, Clifton, on 27 Jan. 1818. They had at least four children. Her husband eventually reached the title of Commander (retired) in 1863. Her The Innocents; a Sacred Drama. Ocean; and the Earthquake at Aleppo (1824) clearly show her writing under the shadow of her father. The Deluge (1837) is equally undistinguished. She died 13 Nov. 1841, aged 45, and was buried at St. Saviour’s, Bath, with her address given as 3 Portland Place. Her husband wrote long-forgotten religious prose, remarried in 1846, and died in 1881, leaving an estate of around £35,000. (ancestry.co.uk 16 Sept. 2020; ODNB 16 Sept. 2020; Bristol Times 27 Nov. 1841; Bath Chronicle 3 Mar. 1881) AA