Beatrix Lucia Catherine Tollemache
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{{short description|British writer}}
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| honorific_prefix = The Honourable
| name = Beatrix Lucia Catherine Tollemache
| birth_name = Beatrix Lucia Catherine Egerton
| image = British (English) School - The Honourable Beatrix Egerton (1840–1926), the Honourable Mrs Lionel Tollemache - 1298446 - National Trust.jpg
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| caption = Tollemache circa 1860
| birth_date = c. 1840
| birth_place = Cheshire, England
| death_date = 24 December 1926
| death_place = Haslemere, Surrey, England
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| parents = William Egerton, 1st Baron Egerton
Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Loftus
| spouse = The Hon. Lionel Arthur Tollemache
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| education =
| occupation = writer, poet and translator
| relatives = John Loftus, 2nd Marquess of Ely (grandfather)
Wilbraham Egerton, 1st Earl Egerton (brother)
Alan Egerton, 3rd Baron Egerton (brother)
Maurice Egerton, 4th Baron Egerton (nephew)
John Loftus, 3rd Marquess of Ely (uncle)
Jane Hope-Vere (aunt)
Lord Augustus Loftus (uncle)
Lord Henry Loftus (uncle)
Egerton family (by birth)
Tollemache family (by marriage)
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Beatrix Lucia Catherine Tollemache ({{Nee|Egerton}}, c. 1840 – 24 December 1926){{Cite web |title=The Honourable Beatrix Egerton (1840–1926), the Honourable Mrs Lionel Tollemache |url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-honourable-beatrix-egerton-18401926-the-honourable-mrs-lionel-tollemache-131297 |access-date=2025-01-08 |website=Art UK |language=en}} was a British writer, translator and poet.{{Cite book |last=Reilly |first=Catherine W. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6svfAAAAMAAJ |title=Late Victorian Poetry, 1880-1899: An Annotated Biobibliography |date=1994 |publisher=Mansell |isbn=978-0-7201-2001-1 |pages=475 |language=en}} She was the daughter of William Egerton, 1st Baron Egerton of Tatton and Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Loftus.{{Cite book |last=Fox-Davies |first=Arthur Charles |author-link=Arthur Charles Fox-Davies |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KDw6AQAAMAAJ&dq=Beatrix+Lucia+Catherine+Tollemache+biography&pg=PA975 |title=Armorial Families: A Complete Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, and a Directory of Some Gentlemen of Coat-armour, and Being the First Attempt to Show which Arms in Use at the Moment are Borne by Legal Authority |date=1895 |publisher= |pages=975 |language=en}}
Family
She was born in 1840 in Cheshire, and was the fourth and youngest daughter of William Egerton, 1st Baron Egerton of Tatton and Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Loftus, daughter of John Loftus, 2nd Marquess of Ely.Pine, L. G. ed. (1956) Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 101st edition. London Burke's Peerage Ltd. p. 746. She had seven siblings, including Wilbraham Egerton, 1st Earl Egerton and Alan Egerton, 3rd Baron Egerton.
On 25 January 1870, she married the Hon. Lionel Arthur Tollemache, son of John Tollemache, 1st Baron Tollemache{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BnaIMbumv8MC&dq=Beatrix+Lucia+Catherine+Tollemache&pg=PA264 |title=Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage: Comprising Information Concerning All Persons Bearing Hereditary Or Courtesy Titles, Companions of All the Various Orders, and the Collateral Branches of All Peers and Baronets |date=1888 |publisher=Dean and son |pages=264 |language=en}} and Georgiana Louisa Best. They spent much of their married life enjoying long stays in luxury hotels in Europe, such as the Hôtel d'Angleterre in Biarritz, France, and the Hôtel Sonnenberg, Engelberg, Switzerland.{{Cite book |last=Ogilvie |first=Sarah |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WAgPEQAAQBAJ&dq=Beatrix+Lucia+Catherine+Tollemache&pg=PA369 |title=The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary |date=2024-10-15 |publisher=Random House |isbn=978-0-593-46998-9 |pages=65 |language=en}}
Career
Tollemache developed a career as a writer,{{Cite book |last=Wiltshire |first=Irene |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OkPvIwhRsW4C&dq=Beatrix+Lucia+Catherine+Tollemache&pg=PA50 |title=Letters of Mrs Gaskell's Daughters |date=2012-01-01 |publisher=Humanities-Ebooks |isbn=978-1-84760-204-6 |pages=50 |language=en}} with her poems regularly published in The Spectator.{{Cite web |date=1926 |title=Obituary: Beatrix Lucia Catherine Tollemache |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Times/1926/Obituary/Beatrix_Lucia_Catherine_Tollemache |access-date=8 January 2025 |website=The Times |language=en}} She also contributed to the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary and corresponded with Sir Francis Galton.{{Cite web |title=Tollemache, Beatrix Lucie Catherine |url=https://wellcomecollection.org/works/y5pw65ca |access-date=8 January 2025 |website=Wellcome Collection |language=en}}
In 1890, she published Engelberg, and Other Verses. In 1891, she published a translation of Jonquille, or the Swiss Smuggler from French, and co-wrote Safe Studies alongside her husband.{{Cite web |date=22 October 2021 |editor-last=Chapman |editor-first=Alice |title=Tollemache, Beatrix L. (F) |url=https://dvpp.uvic.ca/toll2.html |access-date=8 January 2025 |website=Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project, University of Victoria}} In 1900, she published Cranford Souvenirs, and Other Sketches.
She taught herself Russian when she was in her seventies, with her obituary in recording that "the bent of her exceptional mind was shown by her mastery of the difficult Russian language, which she acquired when she was already a septuagenarian." In 1913, she published Russian Sketches, Chiefly of Peasant Life,{{Cite book |last1=Lermontov |first1=Mikhail Urevich |url=https://archive.org/details/russiansketchesc00tolliala |title=Russian sketches, chiefly of peasant life |last2=Leescov |first2=N. C. |last3=Grigorovich |first3=D. V. (Dmitrii Vasilevich) |last4=Nekrasov |first4=Nikolai Alekseevich |date=1913 |publisher=Smith, Elder |location=London |language=en |translator-last=Tollemache |translator-first=Beatrix Lucia Catherine Egerton}} including her translation The Sealed Angel: Faith, Tradition, and Intrigue in 17th Century Russia by Nikolai Leskov.{{Cite book |last=Leskov |first=Nikolai |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Sealed_Angel/j7YqEAAAQBAJ?kptab=editions&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiz0aeSlZ-OAxUkT0EAHWaXE9YQmBZ6BAgLEAs |title=The Sealed Angel: Faith, Tradition, and Intrigue in 17th Century Russia |date=2021-04-10 |publisher=Good Press |language=en |translator-last=Tollemache |translator-first=Beatrix L. |trans-title=}}
Death
References
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External links
- [https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG158381 Frontpieces of Engelberg, and Other Verses] via The British Museum
- Portrait of [https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-honourable-beatrix-egerton-18401926-the-honourable-mrs-lionel-tollemache-131297 The Honourable Beatrix Egerton (1840–1926), the Honourable Mrs Lionel Tollemache] via Art UK
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