LAKER, Elizabeth Mary
As Elizabeth Mary Hollingham, she was born at Shoreham, Sussex in 1854, and baptised on 20 May 1854, daughter of Benjamin Cavendish Hollingham (1815-1887), a sawyer, and his wife Eliza née Mitchell (1818-1890), who married at New Shoreham, Sussex on 26 July 1846. Elizabeth married at Brighton, Sussex on 4 October 1880, Edwin Laker (1854-1929), a seaman, and painted under the name of Elizabeth Laker. She exhibited at the Ipswich Fine Art Club in 1882 from 71 Wells Street, Oxford Street, London, which was a hotel/boarding house, three watercolours, 'A Shell', 'Pansy and Geranium' and 'Sweet Peas'. In 1911, Laker was a 57-year-old, living at 34 North Street, Portslade-by-Sea Sussex, Hove, Sussex with her 56-year-old husband and son Edwin Charles 16, of the four surviving of their six children. Elizabeth Mary Laker died at Steyning, Sussex in 1926.