GREEN, Lucy Raywood

1867 - 1957

Lucy Raywood Green was born at Rounhay, Leeds, Yorkshire on 14 March 1867, daughter of Richard Green (1829-6 September 1903), a farmer, magistrate, and High Sheriff, and his first wife Jane née Bowser (1838-1873), who married at Barnet in 1861. Lucy's father Richard was baptised at Royston, Yorkshire on 3 February 1829, son of Joseph Green and Jane née Raywood and at his death in 1903 he left over £275,000. In 1871, Lucy was a 4-year-old, living at Westfield, Chapel Allerton, Leeds with her parents, 42-year-old Richard and 33-year-old Jane, and siblings Charles Edwin 5 and Richard Malcolm 2, and they kept six indoor servants, they had a further daughter, Frances Hilda. Her mother died at Leeds in 1873, aged 36 when her father married secondly at St Mary-le-Tower, Ipswich on 29 August 1876, Constance Sophia Cobbold (1845-28 December 1930), daughter of John Chevalier Cobbold of Holywells, Ipswich. In 1881 her father and stepmother were living at The Whittern, Lyonshall, Herefordshire, when young Lucy was boarding at a girl's school at 10 Sussex Square, Brighton, Sussex. Lucy was a member of the Ipswich Fine Art Club in 1894 from Lyonshall, but does not seem to have exhibited. In 1901, a 34-year-old, living at The Whittern, Lyonshall with her father and 55-year-old stepmother Constance, who was born at Ipswich, and her 29-year-old sister Frances. In 1939, Lucy was living at 9 Dunsford Place, Bath, Somerset, and she died at The Wardens, Kingsland, Herefordshire on 2 January 1957, aged 89, she was unmarried.