Photograph of Hon. Antonia Georgiana St.John, 1861

The Honourable Antonia St. John (1823 -1903)

11 November 1861

The Honourable Antonia Georgiana Isabella St John was the daughter of Henry Joseph St John and his wife Lady Isabella Frances née Fitzroy, a daughter of the 4th Duke of Grafton. She was baptised at St Nicholas’s Church in Brighton on 26 December 1832.

At the time of the 1851 census, Antonia was 18 and living with her parents at 8 Eccleston Street in London. She gave ‘Brighton’ as her place of birth. Also present on the night of the census were five servants.

She appears on the 1861 census, aged 28, living with her mother, Lady Isabella St John, at Hampton Court Palace. Her mother was by now a widow, Henry St John having died on 2 January 1857. Also present on the night of the census were four servants, including a footman.

When the census was taken in 1881 she had her own residence at 4 Eaton Terrace, London. The household included four servants, specifically a lady's maid, a cook, a housemaid and a footman. 

The Honourable Antonia St John never married. She died on 22 April 1903, aged 71, at Wakefield Lodge, Stony Stratford, Buckinghamshire. She left an estate valued at £20,869.

(Text copyright: Paul Frecker)

A transcript of The Church Register for St. Nicholas, Pottersbury, records that Antonia's abode as being Wakefield Lodge, Passenham and that she was buried on 25th of April 1903 in a service conducted by F. St.John, Subdean of Gloucester. This is most likely to be Canon Maurice Ferdinand St.John and the 'F' is incorrect.