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Gordon at Khartoum

Note 128 — Chapter XII

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Sally Shackle, daughter of the Duke of Somerset’s warrener at Bulstrode, entered my father’s service at Crabbet in 1823 as cook and housekeeper, having just married Henry Sellwood, my father’s valet, and lived on at Crabbet, with the exception of the few years of my elder brother’s minority, till 1894, when she died, after seventy years of honourable service spent, almost all of it, in one house.

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