In 1898, she married Sir George Macartney, the British Consul in Kashgar.
Eric was born in England shortly before the Macartneys returned to Kashgar.
Lady Macartney travelled with her newborn child through Central Asia to Kashgar, accompanied by a nurse.
[5] Lady Macartney died in Charminster, Dorset, England in 1951, two weeks after her daughter.
She is buried with her husband and her two younger children in St. Saviour's churchyard on the Isle of Jersey.