Emily's father Ferdinand and her uncle Francis Joseph were both clergymen. The latter brother is more known, because he ran a boarding school at the rectory near Hatfield, Hertfordshire, for a select group of boy pupils from the aristocracy which included Lord Cranborne the only son of the Marquess of Salisbury who was sent to the school when six. He succeeded his curacy to be Rector of Hatfield, and lived in Hatfield House. He was strict and puritanically uncompromising.
	An example seems to be that he told his pupils that it was wicked to play games on Sundays. This led to trouble with the marquess who accused FJF of undermining his parental authority. He also asked the latter to stop paper-making at a local mill which he owned because of the morals of the girls employed there. But penalties in those days were harsh - three burglars at the house of one of the Marquesss's tenants wre recorded as being "sent for execution" (sentences not carried out). After his death, his wife Mary Carter Grantham transferred the boarding school to Hoddesdon. This, the Grange School, was managed with the aid of a son-in-law, the Revd Chittenden who tansferred it to Sleaford after Mary died, but not until 1905, continuing to provide education for the sons of noble famlies in preparation for public school life.