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If we are talking about the same person, she was born in1877, at Newington, Surrey, daughter of the Reverend George Luther Graves Elliott and Constance Mary Elmslie. She used the diminutive name "Esme", that being the initials of her full maiden name. Her father died before she was much more than 10 years old (exact date unknown, but her mother was a widow by about 1888). I do not know of a connection with Clewer, but Esme would have been about 17 years old in 1894, and she did write and keep diaries (in later life she was a friend and correspondent of Agatha Christie). Esme married, in Cairo, 1897, an Army Officer (Francis Jarread Bowker), who was ADC to her stepfather Major-General (later Sir) Charles Benjamin Knowles KCB (1835-1924). Hence Esme's mother became Lady Constance Mary Knowles (died 1931at home, Camberley). Esme husband retired from the army in 1908, but re-enlisted at the outbreak of war in 1914 and became Temporary Lt-Col commanding 1/4 Battalion the Hampshire Regiment. He took them first to India, thence to the Campaign in Mesopotamia in 1915. He was killed in action at Umm al Hannah on 21st January 1916 and is buried at Amara War Cemetery, Iraq. Esme remarried in 1922, but was widowed a second time in 1927. She died in 1973, at Wokingham, Berks, aged 95.

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