BROWN, Margaret Landon
Margaret Landon Brown was born at Gypeswyk Hall, Ipswich on 25 April 1862 and baptised at St Stephen's church, Ipswich on 4 June 1862, daughter of of William Brown (12 November 1820-20 October 1891), a timber merchant of Gypeswyk Hall, Ipswich, and his wife Esther Wake (1824-1889), daughter of William Wake of Dublin, who married at St Anne's Church, Dublin on 15 May 1851. Margaret was a sister to Frank Brown. Margaret studied at Ipswich School of Science & Art and passed out with a certificate of excellence in Model Drawing in 1880. In 1881, an 18-year-old, living at Gippeswyk Hall with her parents, 60-year-old William and 65-year-old Esther, and four siblings and was still there in 1891. A member of the Ipswich Fine Art Club 1889-1902 of Gippeswyk Hall, but does not seem to have exhibited. In 1901, a 38-year-old spinster, lodging at a boarding house at Woodlands, Sandhurst Park, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. In 1939, Margaret Landon Brown was living at 115a St Andrews Road, Felixstowe, Suffolk and she was pf 12 Leopold Road, Felixstowe when she died at the Nursing Home, Braunton, Banstable on 16 October 1942, she was buried in the Old Ipswich Cemetary.