Rosamund Brunel Gotch
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'''Rosamund Brunel Gotch''' (27 February 1864 – 22 January 1949) was an English stage costume designer, illustrator and writer. |
'''Rosamund Brunel Gotch''' (27 February 1864 – 22 January 1949) was an English stage costume designer, illustrator and writer. |
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She was born Rosamund Brunel Horsley in [[Cranbrook, Kent|Cranbrook]], Kent, the youngest of four sons and three daughters. Her parents were the artist [[John Callcott Horsley|John Calcott Horsley]] and his second wife Rosamund Haden, sister of the etcher [[Francis Seymour Haden|Seymour Haden]]. She was named Brunel after her uncle by marriage [[Isambard Kingdom Brunel]]. Her brother [[Victor Horsley]] became famous as a surgeon and neuropathologist.Obituary, ''The Times'', 24 January 1949 Her elder sister Frances (aka Fanny Marion, later Lady Whitelegge, 1859–1949) married the doctor and occupational health pioneer Sir Arthur Whitelegge.[https://www.bmj.com/content/1/3774/806 'Sir Arthur Whitelegge, K.C.B. M.D., F.R.C.P'], ''British Medical Journal'', May 6 1933, p. 806 |
She was born Rosamund Brunel Horsley in [[Cranbrook, Kent|Cranbrook]], Kent, the youngest of four sons and three daughters. Her parents were the artist [[John Callcott Horsley|John Calcott Horsley]] and his second wife Rosamund Haden, sister of the etcher [[Francis Seymour Haden|Seymour Haden]]. She was named Brunel after her uncle by marriage [[Isambard Kingdom Brunel]]. Her brother [[Victor Horsley]] became famous as a surgeon and neuropathologist.Obituary, ''The Times'', 24 January 1949 Her elder sister Frances (aka Fanny Marion, later '''Lady Whitelegge, 1859–1949''') married the doctor and occupational health pioneer Sir Arthur Whitelegge.[https://www.bmj.com/content/1/3774/806 'Sir Arthur Whitelegge, K.C.B. M.D., F.R.C.P'], ''British Medical Journal'', May 6 1933, p. 806 |
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Rosamund married the Oxford neurophysiologist [[Francis Gotch]] at [[St Margaret's, Westminster|St. Margaret's Church]], Westminster on 15 December 1887.'Marriages', in ''The Times'', 16 December 1887, p. 1 They lived at 'The Lawn', 89 Banbury Road in Oxford. As an illustrator she contributed a frontispiece and twenty plates of human hand lithographs to [[Edward Heron-Allen]]'s chirognomy and [[cheiromancy]] manual ''A Manual of Cheirosophy'' (1900).[https://archive.org/details/manualofcheiroso00heroiala/manualofcheiroso00heroiala/ Edward Heron-Allen: ''A Manual of Cheirosophy'' (1900), Internet Archive] Francis Gotch died in 1913. |
Rosamund married the Oxford neurophysiologist [[Francis Gotch]] at [[St Margaret's, Westminster|St. Margaret's Church]], Westminster on 15 December 1887.'Marriages', in ''The Times'', 16 December 1887, p. 1 They lived at 'The Lawn', 89 Banbury Road in Oxford. As an illustrator she contributed a frontispiece and twenty plates of human hand lithographs to [[Edward Heron-Allen]]'s chirognomy and [[cheiromancy]] manual ''A Manual of Cheirosophy'' (1900).[https://archive.org/details/manualofcheiroso00heroiala/manualofcheiroso00heroiala/ Edward Heron-Allen: ''A Manual of Cheirosophy'' (1900), Internet Archive] Francis Gotch died in 1913. |
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