Charlotte Anne Eaton

Charlotte Anne Eaton (1788–1859), Waldie, was an English banker, travel writer, memoirist and novelist.

Life Born on 28 September 1788, she was second daughter of George Waldie of Hendersyde Park, Roxburghshire, by his wife Ann, eldest daughter of Jonathan Ormston of Newcastle-upon-Tyne; her youngest sister, Jane Watts (1793–1826), was known as a writer and artist.

On 22 August 1822, she married Stephen Eaton (1780–1834) of Ketton Hall, Rutland. Her husband was a partner in the Eaton, Cayley & Co. Bank in Stamford (later The Stamford, Spalding and Boston Banking Co.). She carried on the business as senior partner after the death of her husband until her own death. The Stamford, Spalding and Boston bank was amalgamated into Barclays in 1911.

Eaton died at 17, Hanover Square, Westminster, on 28 April 1859. A second edition was published in 1853 as The Days of Battle, or Quatre Bras and Waterloo; by an Englishwoman resident in Brussels in June 1815. The edition of 1888 was entitled Waterloo Days. The book was heavily quoted by Augustus Hare. second and third editions appeared respectively in 1822 and 1823. A fifth edition, in two volumes, was published in 1852, and a sixth in 1860.

As Mrs Eaton, she wrote:

Continental Adventures, a story, London, 1826, 3 vols. At Home and Abroad, a novel, London, 1831, 3 vols.

Family In 1822, Charlotte Waldie married Stephen Eaton, a banker of Ketton Hall, Rutland; he died on 25 September 1834. They had two sons and two daughters. Charles Ormston Eaton (1827–1907) was a son.