LAKER, Elizabeth Mary
As Elizabeth Mary Hollingham, she was born at Shoreham, Sussex in April 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 on 23 January 1926 and buried in Portslade Cemetery.