Charlotte Eliza Lawson Cowan was born in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Ireland, on 30th September 1832, the youngest daughter of James Cowan, a High Sheriff for the County of Antrim, and Ellen Kilshaw from Liverpool, England. In the winter of 1855, four years after her father's death, she and her mother moved to London. Sadly, within the year, her mother also passed. In 1857, she married Joseph Hadley Riddell, a civil engineer. The marriage...