After their arrival in Bombay on 2 September 1870, Palliser joined his ship while Kathleen travelled north with George and his new wife Kate to their home in Ludhiana, Punjab. This was Commander Henry St Leger Bury Palliser (1839-1907), on his way to join HMS Forte in Bombay harbour. On the voyage to India, Kathleen met and fell in love with "Captain Palliser, an officer in the Navy". Her eldest brother, George Lloyd Ashburnham Kelly (1838-1870), District Superintendent of Police in the Punjab, had brokered her marriage to an acquaintance, Dr Isaac Newton (1838-1922), a distinguished army surgeon, who had been appointed Superintendent of Vaccination for the Punjab in 1868. Marriage, divorce and children Īt the age of sixteen, Kathleen left school for an arranged marriage in India. During the 1860s both were pupils at Gumley House convent school in Isleworth, Middlesex. The girls were baptised at the local Anglican church, Holy Trinity, on 29 August 1860. Charles Kelly entrusted them to his younger brother, Frederick Kelly, MRCSI (1817-1897), a General Practitioner in St Bride's, London, living at 60 Fetter Lane. After the Indian Rebellion of 1857-1858, Kathleen and her older sister Mary Pauline (1852-1896) were among the many British women and children sent to England for safety. She was the youngest child of Charles and his wife Flora Waterloo Kelly, née Boyd (1821-1856). The Kelly family had Irish heritage, and Irish cultural identity was rooted firmly in Kathleen, who would be described by James Tissot's 1906 biographer as "a ravishing Irishwoman". By the time of his retirement in 1866 he was Chief Assistant in the Office of the Deputy Auditor and Accountant General of the Punjab in Lahore. Her father, Charles Frederick Ashburnham Kelly (1810–1885), was employed in the Honourable East India Company's Civil Service and at his marriage in 1838 was a Clerk in the Collector's Office, Agra. Kathleen Irene Ashburnham Kelly was born on in Agra, India. Kathleen ("Kitty") Irene Ashburnham Newton (née Kelly 1854–1882) was the Irish muse and lover of French artist James Tissot. Painting by Jacques Tissot, A Type of Beauty, 1880.
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