Kate Eadie

{{Short description|English artist (1880–1945)}}

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| name = Kate Muriel Mason Eadie

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1880|5|4|df=y}}

| birth_place = Harborne, Birmingham, England

| death_date = {{dda|1945|11|8|1880|5|4|df=y}}

| death_place = Alcester, Warwickshire, England

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| nationality = British

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| education = Birmingham School of Art

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| occupation = Jeweller, stained-glass designer

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| spouse = Sidney Meteyard

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Kate Muriel Mason Eadie {{post-nominals|country=GBR|RMS|ARBSA}} (4 May 18801939 England and Wales Register – 8 November 1945) was a British jeweller{{cite web |date=2011 |title=Miss Kate Muriel Mason Eadie |url=https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/mapping/public/view/person.php?id=msib4_1203689295&search=Kate%20Eadie |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240626-204315/https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/mapping/public/view/person.php?id=msib4_1203689295&search=Kate%20Eadie |archive-date=26 June 2024 |accessdate=29 January 2013 |work=Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851–1951 |publisher=University of Glasgow}} and craftswoman{{Cite episode |title=University of Birmingham |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qh59z |access-date=29 January 2013 |series=Antiques Roadshow |series-link=Antiques Roadshow |network=BBC |date=2000 |series-no=23 |number=12}} in Birmingham, working in the Arts and Crafts style.

Eadie was born to Richard William Eadie (1851–1920) and Fanny Sophia Eadie, née Mason (1857–1938). In September 1940, she married the Birmingham Pre-Raphaelite painter Sidney Meteyard,{{cite web |date=2012 |title=Kate Eadie Arts and Crafts Suffragette Necklace Amethyst Silver and Enamel |url=http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/59420-kate-eadie-arts-and-crafts-suffragette-n |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240219052556/http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/59420-kate-eadie-arts-and-crafts-suffragette-n |archive-date=19 February 2024 |accessdate=29 January 2013 |work=Collectors Weekly}}{{cite web |date=2 November 2010 |title=An Arts and Crafts citrine necklace by Kate Eadie |url=http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/18157/lot/168/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240626-211409/https://www.bonhams.com/auction/18157/lot/168/an-arts-and-crafts-citrine-necklace-by-kate-eadie-unmarked/ |archive-date=26 June 2024 |accessdate=29 January 2013 |website=Bonhams |publisher=}} whom she met when she studied at Birmingham School of Art, having modelled for many of his pictures, including the drawing Jasmine.{{cite web |title=Jasmine by Sidney Harold Meteyard |url=http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/meteyard/drawings/1.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507074447/http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/meteyard/drawings/1.html |archive-date=7 May 2021 |accessdate=2 February 2013 |website=Victorian Web}} They worked together on stained glass.{{cite journal |last=Ripley |first=Paul |date=7 April 1947 |title=Obituary of Sidney Harold Meteyard |url=https://www.artrenewal.org/Article/Title/obituary-of-sidney-harold-meteyard |url-status=live |journal=The Birmingham Post |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230620213636/https://www.artrenewal.org/Article/Title/obituary-of-sidney-harold-meteyard |archive-date=20 June 2023 |access-date=26 June 2024 |via=Art Renewal Center}}

A well as jewellery, she made larger items such as fire screens.

In 1915, she was elected an associate of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, with whom she had exhibited a case of jewellery in 1908–1909, a processional cross in 1909, and another case of jewellery in 1911.

At one time, she lived at The Malthouse, Evesham Road, Cookhill, Alcester, Warwickshire, with her sisters, {{citation needed|date=February 2013}} and with Meteyard.

She died on 8 November 1945.England & Wales, National Probate Calendar 1946{{cite web |title=A silver Arts & Crafts moonstone pendant |url=https://www.sworder.co.uk/auction/lot/lot-275---a-silver-arts--crafts-moonstone-pendant/?lot=88664&so=4&st=Kate%20Eadie&sto=0&au=&ef=&et=&ic=False&sd=1&pp=96&pn=1&g=1 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240626-220149/https://www.sworder.co.uk/auction/lot/lot-275---a-silver-arts--crafts-moonstone-pendant/?lot=88664&so=4&st=Kate%20Eadie&sto=0&au=&ef=&et=&ic=False&sd=1&pp=96&pn=1&g=1 |archive-date=26 June 2024 |accessdate=2 February 2013 |website=Sworders |quote=A silver Arts & Crafts moonstone pendant attributed to Kate Eadie, c.1910...}} She is buried in Brandwood End Cemetery, Birmingham.