Lillian was the daughter of the aural surgeon Edward G. Woakes. She married Charles Imray Kirton in 1894, and by 1911 they had two sons, Ralph and Bruce.
Lillian was painted by Whistler, Portrait of Miss Lilian Woakes y393.
UK Census 1871 et seq, and Index of deaths, Ancestry.com; Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 .