Meta
Cumberbatch
MBE
formerly Davis
Born in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago, British West Indies
Daughter of James Augustus Davis
and [mother unknown]
Sister of
Kathleen (Davis) Warner and Beryl Busby Davis
Wife of
Roland Cumberbatch
— married
1923 in St Pancras, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom
Descendants 
Died
at age 78
in Bahamas
Profile last modified
| Created 3 Oct 2022
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Biography
Meta (Davis) Cumberbatch MBE is part of a Bahamian family.
Meta (Davis) Cumberbatch MBE is Notable.
Meta Davis Cumberbatch, was an internationally respected concert pianist, who used her great gifts to further the arts of the Bahamas. Meta was born in 1900. She was the daughter of James Davis.
She married a Trinidadian doctor, Roland Cumberbatch, who obtained a job in the Bahamas.
She studied music at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
She passed away in 1978.
Sources
- General Register Office; United Kingdom; Volume: 1b; Page: 253. Ancestry.com. England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010.
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