WILKIE COLLINS'S FAMILY
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ALEXANDER
WILLIAM GEDDES (c.1763-1843)
Alexander
Geddes was Wilkie Collins's maternal grandfather, married to
Harriet Easton in 1789. After
leaving the army in 1791, he settled near Salisbury in 1798 at Shute End House,
on the Earl of Radnor's estate at Alderbury, where he lived for the next
forty-five years. Wilkie's mother,
Harriet Collins, was the eldest of their six children.
Wilkie and Charles Collins spent
holidays with their grandparents and the kindly, easy-going and improvident
Alexander Geddes is probably the model for Zack Thorpe's grandfather in Hide
and Seek.
HARRIET
GEDDES (nee Easton) (1762-1842)
Harriet
Geddes was Wilkie Collins's maternal grandmother. She was the younger
daughter of James Easton (1722-1799), a prominent Salisbury coal merchant and
Mayor in 1785. Harriet married
Alexander Geddes in 1789.
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