Eleanor Vere Gordon (1825–1845)
Eleanor Vere Boyle (1845–1916)
1825–1916
Illustrator and author. Daughter of Alexander and Albinia Elizabeth Gordon. Married Richard Cavendish Townshend Boyle in 1845. Illustrated several books, mostly fairy tales or nursery rhymes, 1852–77. Re-created an extensive garden at Huntercombe Manor near Burnham, Buckinghamshire, and wrote on gardens and nature. Involved in charitable work and a patron of the Frome School of Art from 1868.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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