Ada Maria Jenyns
Ada Maria Jenyns, also known as Mrs. Robert Jocelyn or Ada Maria Jocelyn, was a British Victorian novelist.
Biography
Ada Maria Jenyns was born 7 December 1860 in Aldershot, Hampshire, in north-east England to father Soame Gambier Jenyns and mother Rita Thompson. Her paternal grandfather was George Jenyns, Esquire of Bottisham Hall. Her father was an army colonel, and her parents were married in 1859. She had a sister named Florence. In 1882, she married Robert Jocelyn, a soldier and later the 7th Earl of Roden.The Jocelyns had three children. Their only boy was Captain Robert Soame Jocelyn, 8th Earl of Roden. The couple's two daughters were Julian Mary and Marcia Valda Marcia married first Robert Barclay Black and then in 1924 Eric Miles, who had a long military career, retiring as a major general.