“ Tollemache retained her confidence in this country, her serene hopefulness to the last, dying peacefully and painlessly full of years and wisdom. The world is the worse for the loss of such a woman her native country of Cheshire—that "Seede Plot of Gentilitie"—never grew a fairer flower! ”

“ She was a very lovely and brilliant woman of exceeding charm, an artist and a capable critic, her beautiful face being an index to her uncommon character. She was notable, too, for her command of foreign idioms, and all the treasures of the best European literature were fully open to her. ”