She was born in Calcutta, India; the daughter of William Ritchie, Advocate-General of Bengal, and the sister of Sir Richmond Ritchie. In 1866 aged 18 she married Francis Warre-Cornish, a master at Eton College and ultimately Vice-Provost of the school. They had a number of children, including the writer Mary MacCarthy, and Cecilia Fisher, who married William Wordsworth Fisher, later an admiral. She died in Kensington, London.
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