THOMPSON, Lucy
Lucy Mary Thompson was born at 34 Tavern Street, Ipswich on 20 February 1864, youngest daughter of William Thompson (18 May 1823-3 July 1903), a master confectioner, and his wife Elizabeth Lucy née Fisher (1827-June 1884), who married at Yoxford, Suffolk in 1860. In 1871, Lucy was a 7-year-old, living at 34-36 Tavern Street, Ipswich, the home of her 74-year-old grandmother Susan Thompson, who was a confectioner, together with Lucy's parents 47-year-old William, and 43 year old Elizabeth with siblings, Kate Elizabeth 9, Jessie 8 and Sydney 4, who were all born at Ipswich, together with two shop assistants and two servants and in 1881 were still living at this address. Her father William Thompson was the founder of Thompson & Morgan, seedsmen. Lucy was educated at Ipswich High School for Girls and in 1880, she passed as excellent for a certificate and was awarded a prize at the Ipswich School of Science & Art for her freehand drawing. A former headmistress of Dr. Williams's School, Dolgelley, Wales, she married at St John's Church, Ipswich on 18 August 1898, Revd Cecil Grant (18 August 1870-3 April 1946), headmaster of the Keswick School of Industrial Art, and in 1901, Lucy was a 37-year-old schoolmistress, living at Main Street, Keswick, Cumbria but by 1911 they had moved to St George's School, Carlton Road, Harpenden, Hertfordshire where she was still living in 1930. Lucy Mary Grant died at Powder Copse, Boars Hill, Oxford on 30 May 1937. Her husband Cecil Grant was headmaster of the new St George's School, Harpenden from 1907 to 1936 and a proponent of Montessori education.