George Woodford Roughton
George Woodford Roughton was born in 1852 in Kettering, Northamptonshire. He was the second son of the nine sons of James John Roughton and Eliza Ann Roghton (Nee Woolley). George’s fatherJames was a General Practioner. George trained as an articled clerk and after becoming a solicitor travelled to Bombay in India. On the 3rd November 1880 George married Christabel Edith Belfour. Sadly two years later Christabel died.
After Christabel’s death George married Mary Charlotte Evelyn Winscom. The couple had two daughters, Christabel Bruce Roughton, born in 1885 who sadly died at 8 days old and Ethel Maud Woodford Roughton born in 1887. When Ethel was only 12 years old George died at the age of 48. A plaque was erected in St Thomas’s Cathedral Mumbai in his memory with the following inscription.
GEORGE WOODFORD ROUGHTON.J.P..
SOLICITOR OF THE SUPREME COURT IN ENGLAND.
MAJOR. COMMANDING THE BOMBAY VOLUNTEER ARTILLERY FROM ITS FOUNDATION IN 1887, AND HONORARY AIDE DE CAMP TO Η.Ε. THE VICEROY, SHERIFF OF BOMBAY, 1895, MEMBER OF THE MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF THIS CITY FROM 1889, DURING WHICH PERIOD HE WAS ELECTED CHAIRMAN OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE, 1894-5.AND PRESIDENT OF THE CORPORATION 1895-6
DIED 26 MARCH 1899. AGED 48.
THIS TABLET IS ERECTED BY THE BOMBAY VOLUNTEER ARTILLERY AS A TOKEN OF THEIR SINCERE REGARD AND A’S A MARK OF THEIR APPRECIATION OF HIS UNTIRING DEVOTION TO THE CORPS.
George Woodford Roughton Memorial Plaque St Thomas’s Cathedral Mumbai.
George’s wife Mary and their surviving daughter Maud returned to England after his death. In 1911 they were living in Battersea where Mary was working as a shorthand typist and Maud as a teacher for London County Council. In 1913, Mary retired as a shorthand typist, where she had been working for The Post Office following 8 years service, on a pension of 38 shillings a week.
Maud married George Frederick Edwards in 1912 and the couple emigrated to British Columbia Canada.