Photograph of Lady Augusta Stanley, the daughter of the 7th Earl of Elgin. She is seated on a chair facing three-quarters left. She looks down at her hands and appears to be holding a piece of thread.

Lady Augusta Stanley was the wife of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Dean of Westminster. She was Lady-in-Waiting to the Duchess of Kent and later held the positions of Resident Woman of the Bedchamber from 1861 and Extra Woman of the Bedchamber from 1863 to 1876.