WYBROO, Edgar Harry
Edgar Harry Wybroo was born at 12 Edward Street, Newington, Surrey in January 1861, third child of Arthur Charles Thomas Wybroo (1834-14 October 1911), a barrister's clerk, and his wife Anne Elizabeth née Dalton (1832-September 1925), who married at St Saviours, Southwark in 1855. In 1881, Edgar was a 20-year-old shorthand writer, living at 116 Clapham Park Road, Wandsworth with his parents, 46-year-old Arthur and 47-year-old Anne, with five siblings, Annie Mary Louisa 24, Arthur J. W. 22, Alice Jessie 13 and twins Florence and Winifred 4. Edgar married at Wandsworth in 1886, Caroline Gertrude Hodgetts (1867-23 July 1937). In 1911, a 50-year-old solicitor, living at Rothhampstead Avenue, Harpenden, Hertfordshire with his 44-year-old wife Caroline and three children, Jessica 10, Joyce 5 and a newly born unnamed son, and they retained three indoor servants. As Asst. Chief Solicitor of the old Great Eastern Railway, Edgar retired to Woodbridge, Suffolk and, as an amateur painter and wood carver, was a member of the Ipswich Art Club 1927-1930, but had exhibited from The White House, Melton, Woodbridge in 1926 two works 'Martlesham Creek' and 'The Jungfrau' and in 1927 exhibited from 'Shirley', Grundisburgh Road, Woodbridge, Suffolk, six watercolours 'Evening Gleam from below Les Avants', 'Gimmelen, Near Murren', 'The Jungfrau from the Schynige Platte', 'Alpine Glow', 'Repose (Bachalpsee)', and 'The Coming Glow' it seems probable that he visited Switzerland owing to his poor health and his last exhibits were in 1928, 'The Jungfrau from Egerlsetscher'. Edgar Harry Wybroo was of 'Shirley', Grundisburgh Road, Woodbridge when he died at Interlaken, Switzerland on 7 February 1931, leaving a widow and one married daughter Joyce (1905-1967), who married at Woodbridge in 1929, Arthur Cecil Ward (1900-1971).
Works by This Artist
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Near Woodbridge, SuffolkGouache
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