HERRING, Leonard Herbert
Leonard Herbert Herring was born at Holly Cottage, Phoenix Road, Ipswich on 4 August 1907, the son of Elvina Jane Herring (1880-20 October 1938), no father is named on his birth certificate. In 1911 Leonard was a 3-year-old, living at Lower Farm, Levington, near Ipswich with his uncle, 42-year-old Stephen Cowie, a carpenter, and his 36-year-old wife Sara and their two sons Stephen 15 and Harold 13. His mother Elvina died at Model Cottage, Nacton, Ipswich, a spinster, on 20 October 1938, leaving her effects to her son Leonard. From about 1926, Leonard was a teacher and in 1931 registered on the Teacher's Registration Council Registers. Leonard married at Ipswich in 1932, Violet May Eaton (10 July 1905-30 April 1988) and in 1939, headmaster of Earl Stonham School, living at the Old Forge, Creeting St Mary, near Ipswich with his wife. A member of the Ipswich Art Club from 1967 when he had a series of wood engravings for sale at 2 guineas each, also exhibiting from School House, Trimley St Martin, Felixstowe, Suffolk in 1968, two watercolours 'August Evening' and 'Stratford upon Avon' and the following year another watercolour 'After Harvest'. Leonard Herbert Herring died at Ipswich in 1994.