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(Augusta) Gabrielle Eden Enthoven (1868–1950) by Madame Yevonde, 1924 © Yevonde Portrait Archive; National Portrait Gallery, London
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Kate Dorney
Enthoven [née Romaine], (Augusta) Gabrielle Eden (1868–1950), theatre archivist and playwright, was born at 21 New Street, Spring Gardens, Westminster, London, on 12 January 1868, the daughter of William Govett Romaine (1815–1893), secretary to the Admiralty, and his wife, Frances Phoebe, née...
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See Evans [née Lander], (Caroline) Mary Forbes
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A. F. Pollard
revised by Suzanne Fagence Cooper
Merritt, Henry (1822–1877), picture conservator and art critic, was born in Oxford on 8 June 1822, the son of Joseph Merritt, a tailor. The fifth of nine children, his early years were passed in considerable poverty. His mother encouraged his education at an infant school, and, from the age of eleven, at the ...
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Peter G. Cobb
Patten, (Alfred) Hope (1885–1958), Church of England clergyman and restorer of the shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, was born at the Town Brewery, Sidmouth, Devon, on 17 November 1885, the only child of Alfred Patten, an indigent gentleman, and Mary Sadler, his wife. ...
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Anna Bridget Plowden (1938–1997) by unknown photographer, 1985 [detail] photograph provided by Plowden & Smith Limited
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Jonathan Ashley-Smith
Plowden, Anna Bridget (1938–1997), archaeological conservator and restorer, was born on 18 June 1938 at 99 Cromwell Road, Kensington, the second of four children of Edwin Noel Auguste Plowden, Baron Plowden (1907–2001), and Bridget Horatia Plowden (née Richmond), Lady Plowden (1910–2000). Edwin Plowden...
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Edith May Pretty (1883–1942) by unknown photographer, c.1939 © National Trust Images / Sutton Hoo
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Pauline M. Sabin Moore
Pretty [née Dempster], Edith May (1883–1942), landowner and benefactor, was born on 1 August 1883 at Elland, near Halifax, Yorkshire, the second daughter of Robert Dempster (d. 1925), then a gas engineer employed in his father's company, and his wife, Elizabeth, ...
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Terry Philpot
Southgate, Walter Charles (1890–1986), political activist and co-founder of the National Museum of Labour History, was born on 8 May 1890 at 49 North (later Northiam) Street, South Hackney, London, one of seven children of William James Southgate (1854–1919), quill pen cutter, and his wife, ...
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Thomson, (Robert Howard) Garry (1925–2007), museum conservator and author, was born on Carey Island, Malaya, on 13 September 1925, the son of Robert Thomson, a planter engaged in the production of plant oil, and his wife, Moira, née Spence. He was educated at ...
