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Euphemia Chalmers Gray (1828-1897). Born at Bowerswell, Perth in the same room in which John Ruskin’s grandfather, John Thomas Ruskin committed suicide. George Gray, her father, a solicitor and who later became Writer to the Signet, had purchased Bowerswell from John James Ruskin. Effie was the first of 15 children eight of whom survived into adulthood. She was baptised Euphemia Chalmers, the name of her maternal grandmother. Her mother Sophie was the daughter of Andrew Jameson, Sheriff Substitute of Fife. Between 1828 and 1851 she had 15 children. Little is known of her education but she did spend the academic year 1840-41 and spring term of 1844 at a school in Stratford-on-Avon (Fleming (1998) p.116). Married John Ruskin on 10th April 1848 at the age of 20. The marriage was annulled six years later. On 3rd July 1855 she married John Everett Millais.
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