Family
Her father was Samuel Henry Beddington, a wool merchant, and her mother was named Zillah. Leverson had eight younger sibilings, one of whom died in infancy. The survivors were, in order of birth, Evelyn, George, Charles, Sybil, Frank, Arthur and Violet. Sybil (who later married David Seligman) had a brief affair and long friendship with Giacomo Puccini. Violet (1874–1962) turned down a marriage proposal from the composer Arthur Sullivan and later married the author Sydney Schiff.
Ada married Ernest Leverson (1852–1921), when she was 19, without her parents' consent. The marriage broke up when he moved to Canada in 1905. Her daughter and biographer, Violet Leverson, married Guy Percy Wyndham in 1923, his second marriage. Her grandson is the short story-writer and novelist Francis Wyndham. Ernest Leverson's cousins include actor Darrell Fancourt and, by marriage, actor-playwright Brandon Thomas.
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