Thursday 18 August 2011

FW: GURNEY, Mrs Charles (Sophie Jane nee RAVERAT, 1919-2011)

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Subject: GURNEY, Mrs Charles (Sophie Jane nee RAVERAT, 1919-2011)

Obituary in today's Telegeraph:
Sophie Gurney, who died on June 10 aged 91, was an artist linked to many of
the leading intellectual and cultural figures of the early 20th century.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/art-obituaries
/8705200/Sophie-Gurney.html

She was the dau of the artist Jacques Pierre Paul (1885-1925, son of Georges
Pierre RAVERAT "a vegetarian silk merchant from Le Havre" * ) and Gwendolen
Mary (1885-1967, dau of Sir George Howard DARWIN KCB (1845-1912, scion of
that gentry family formerly of Downe, and son of the naturalist CHARLES
DARWIN and his wife, a scion of the baron
WEDGWOOD) and Maud Haskins (d 1947, dau of Charles Meredith DU PUY (of
Huguenot descent), of Philadelphia, USA). She m 1st 1940 Mark PRYOR (d
1970), having a son and three daus. She m 2nd Charles GURNEY (who died
before her).

* Some useful insights on her son's website:
http://williampryor.wordpress.com/?s=raverat

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