Beatrix Marion Sturt

A painting of three children, including a young Beatrix Sturt, and a dog
Beatrix Sturt as a child in an 1853 painting, pictured with her brothers Francis Montagu Muirhead and Herbert Hugh Muirhead

Beatrix Marion Sturt (21 November 1849 – 28 April 1944) was a British writer who contributed articles to the Dictionary of National Biography.

Beatrix Marion Muirhead was born in Hastings, England, in 1849.[1][2][3] Her father was the Scottish lawyer James Patrick Muirhead.[4]

In 1876, she married Napier George Sturt, an Australian-born colonel, in Thame, England.[1][2][5] The couple had three children.[1]

After being widowed in 1901, she settled for a period in Llanfrynach, in Wales. There, she became active in home-front fundraising efforts during World War I. She was also a vocal advocate for women's suffrage.[1]

Sturt's primary legacy is as a biographer, including of her father-in-law, the Australian explorer Charles Sturt.[1][6] Her flattering 1899 biography of him is titled The Life of Charles Sturt.[5][7] She also contributed several entries to the Dictionary of National Biography, under the initials B.M.S. and B.N.S.[8]

She spent the majority of her later years in Bewdley, England, where she died in 1944 at age 95.[1][3][9]

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References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Newsletter 42". Breconshire Local & Family History Society. April 2015. Retrieved 22 July 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Beatrix Marion Sturt". State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 22 July 2024.
  3. ^ a b "Beatrix Marion STURT, nee MUIRHEAD". Author and Book Info. Retrieved 22 July 2024.
  4. ^ "Mrs Pointer and the Drummond Family". Sussex PhotoHistory. Retrieved 22 July 2024.
  5. ^ a b Sturt, Charles (23 October 2017). The Central Australian Expedition 1844–1846 / The Journals of Charles Sturt. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-317-03928-0.
  6. ^ "The Grange home in Adelaide's west turned into museum devoted to the achievements of explorer Charles Sturt". Adelaide AZ. Retrieved 22 July 2024.
  7. ^ Rudolph, Ivan (27 June 2014). Sturt's Desert Drama. Boolarong Press. ISBN 978-1-925046-56-4.
  8. ^ Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sir Sidney (1917). The Dictionary of National Biography: From the Earliest Times to 1900. Oxford University Press.
  9. ^ "Links with Old Soho". The Birmingham Post. 16 May 1944.