FLOOD, Alice Hanford

1856 - 1918

Frances Alice Hanford-Flood

Frances Alice (Hanford-) Flood, was born in Kilkenny Farmley, Leinster, Ireland in June 1856, daughter of William Hanford-Flood (c.1809-3 May 1892) and his wife Frances Hanford (27 July 1823-21 February 1875), only daughter of Charles Edward Hanford (1781-1854) of Wollas Hall, Worcestershire who married at Eckington, Derbyshire on 18 November 1847. William Lloyd had taken the name of Flood in 1839 and on 4 June 1861 of Hanford-Flood, young Frances was a sister to Mary Frances Hervey. Knonw as Alice, in 1881 she was living with her father at Wollas Hall, Pershore, Worcestershire. Alice exhibited at the Cheltenham Fine Art Society's exhibition in 1899, a watercolour 'On Shakespeare's Avon'. In 1901, Frances was a 44-year-old spinster, living at 16 Queens Road, Paddington, London and as Miss A. H. Flood of Thurston, Suffolk, she exhibited a watercolour at the third Suffolk Art and Aid Association exhibition held at The Athenaeum, Bury St Edmund's on 23 October 1908. In 1911, a 55-year-old, living at Thurston Cottage, Bury St Edmund's, Suffolk, the home of her brother-in-law Col. Constantine William Rodney Hervey. Alice Hanford Flood died at 103 Thun Strasse, Berne, Switzerland on 15 September 1918.