Henrietta was the daughter of DGR's maternal uncle Henry Polydore (d. 1885). According to Surtees, “she was a consumptive and died in the United States at the age of twenty-eight” (Surtees 182n). Her father, a lawyer, changed his name, presumably to disguise his Italian ancestry. The family generally thought him a tedious person.
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Henrietta was the daughter of DGR's maternal uncle Henry Polydore (d. 1885). According to Surtees, “she was a consumptive and died in the United States at the age of twenty-eight” (Surtees 182n). Her father, a lawyer, changed his name, presumably to disguise his Italian ancestry. The family generally thought him a tedious person.