Mary Frances Wicksteed (abt. 1836 - 1906)

Ancestors

Died 1906 at about age 70 in Kent, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

Mary Frances Wicksteed was a daughter of Thomas and Eliza Wicksteed.

She was employed as a governess by the United Kingdom politician Robert Needham Philips, M.P. One of her charges was Robert Philips's grandson Charles Philips Trevelyan, future President of the Board of Education in the government of Ramsay MacDonald, and older brother of the historian George Macaulay Trevelyan. Mary Wicksteed painted watercolours that are highly regarded. They include 64 watercolours, mainly landscapes, painted on tours of Scotland and North Wales, United Kingdom, and some small watercolours depicting Charles Trevelyan as a baby. ^{[1] [2]}

Mary Wicksteed passed away in 1906 in Kent, England (United Kingdom), aged 69. ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.quaritch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Chelsea-2018.pdf (Bernard Quaritch Ltd, Chelsea Book Fair 2018: Wicksteed, Mary Francis).
2. ↑ https://manuscripts.nls.uk/repositories/2/resources/19587 (National Library of Scotland, Watercolours of Mary Frances Wicksteed painted on tours of Scotland and Wales).
3. ↑ England and Wales General Register Office, online index (deaths). GRO Reference: 1906 M Quarter in Tonbridge, Volume 02A, page 507.

• https://archive.org/stream/descendantsofphi00lond/descendantsofphi00lond_djvu.txt (Lawrence, Sarah. The Descendants of Philip Henry, M.A.: Incumbent of Worthenbury, in the County of Flint; who was Ejected Therefrom by the Act of Uniformity in 1662: Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, John Merridew, Leamington, 1844).
• Wikipedia: Thomas Wicksteed.

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