Brada Hulton (1877–1973) was granddaughter to Reverend Samuel Simpson (1802–1881), who was born in Lancaster in 1802, son of a West Indies merchant. Samuel Simpson worked for many years as an attorney, and was the Director of the Liverpool and Leeds District Railway. In 1843 he built the grand Lancaster residence Greaves House. In 1851 he decided to become a clergyman, finding appointment in the Isle of Wight. Brada's mother, Ellinor Brada Simpson (1853–1887) married Jessop Henry Fletcher Hulton, whose brother was the artist William Stokes Hulton (1852–1921). Brada would no doubt have felt this artistic influence, and she evidently lived a life of privilege and cultural accomplishment, of—as her diary attests—'dances and dancing classes, tennis and the tennis club, concerts, music lessons and bathing at the Lido'. Her cousin was Edith Teresa Hulton, later Lady Berwick, of Attingham Park, Shropshire (now owned by the National Trust), and there are a number of photographs of Brada Hulton in the National Trust collections.