Isabella Frances Townshend
Isabella Frances Townshend | |
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Isabella Frances Vere Townshend (Self Portrait) | |
| Born | Isabella Frances Vere Townshend 1 November 1847 Rosscarbery, County Cork, Ireland |
| Died | 20 July 1882 (aged 34) |
| Resting place | St Mary's Perivale |
| Education | Hitchen College (didn't graduate) |
| Relatives | Emily Townshend (sister-in-law) Caroline Townshend (niece) |
Isabella Frances Townshend was an Anglo-Irish artist, and one of the first five students at Hitchen College (present-day Girton College, Cambridge).[1][2]
Biography
Isabella Frances Vere Townshend was born on 1 November 1847 in Rosscarbery, County Cork to Rev Chambré[a] Corker Townshend and Eliza Wilmot Townshend (née Oliver).[3][4]
In 1869, Townshend was one of five women to enroll at Hitchen College.[2] Townshend later left Hitchen College in 1872 without obtaining a qualification.[1][2][3]
Personal life
Townshend died on 20 July 1882 in Ealing, Middlesex (present-day London) aged 34.[3][5] On 25 July 1882 Townshend was buried at St Mary's Perivale.[6]
Through her brother Chambré Corker Townshend, she was the sister-in-law of Emily Townshend, a social reformer, suffragette and fellow-student at Hitchin College, and the aunt of the artist Caroline Townshend.[3]
Notes
- ^ Alternatively spelt Chambrey
References
- ^ a b "Isabella Frances Vere Townshend (Self Portrait)". Art UK Discover. Art UK. Retrieved 25 February 2026.
- ^ a b c "Student Experience: Stroll through history with Girton's students". Pioneering History. Cambridge: Girton College, University of Cambridge. Retrieved 25 February 2026.
- ^ a b c d "Isabella Frances Vere Townshend (5D22)". The Townsend (Townshend) Family Records. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin–Madison. 23 January 2023. Archived from the original on 15 December 2025. Retrieved 25 February 2026.
- ^ "Isabella Frances Vere Townshend". 1871 England Census; Derbyshire; Beeley; ALL; 20. Kew, Richmond: The National Archives: 7. 1871.
- ^ "Townshed, Isabella Frances Vere". Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England. London: Principal Probate Registry: 262. 1890.
- ^ "Isabella Frances Vere Townshend [Burial Record]". London Church of England Parish Registers; Ealing; Saint Mary the Virgin, Perivale: Perivale Lane; 1813–1886. London: The London Archives. 1882.