She was a patron of the Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital and the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
[1] Her father was Henry Gilding, a Liverpool draper's buyer and Justice of the Peace.
[3] He was the son of William Isaac Iliffe, founder of the Coventry Evening Telegraph, and Annette Coker.
They had three children:[2] Lady Iliffe joined the Coventry Women's Suffrage Society (CWSS) and regularly attended meetings with her mother-in-law.
[5] A collection of her seashells and a portrait painting of her is held at the National Trust property Basildon Park.