Maurice was the Principal Registrar at the Irish Court of Probate; his wife from a long established Wiltshire family with an estate at Teffont Evias.
[2] On 30 June 1886, at St James's Church, Paddington, Alys married Alexander Pelham Trotter[3] (1857–1947).
Nigel was killed in action on 12 October 1914 at La Fosse, near Vielle Chapelle, Bethune: The ground over which the British had to advance was intersected by small irrigation canals crossed by plank bridges, on which the officers and men offered a good target.
Trotter is believed to have been first hit while crossing one of these bridges, and after advancing three-quarters of a mile fell with two more wounds.
Her cousin, Louisa Kathleen Coutts Trotter (1863–1961), was the wife of the physiologist John Scott Haldane.