Rhoda Wager

{{Short description|British jewellery designer (1875–1953)}}

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Rhoda Wager (10 March 1875 – 1953) was a British jewellery designer who later settled in Australia.

She was born on 10 March 1875 in Mile End, London, one of five children of George Wager a warehouseman, and his wife Jane Annabella, née James.{{cite book |last1=Schofield |first1=Anne |title=Wager, Rhoda (1875–1953) |chapter=Rhoda Wager (1875–1953) |chapter-url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/wager-rhoda-8944 |website=Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 12 , 1990 |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |access-date=10 June 2022}}

Wager grew up in Bristol, and studied there at a local art school, then trained in drawing and painting at the Glasgow School of Art from 1897 to 1903. She also made jewellery with Bernard Cuzner.

In 1913, Wager moved to Fiji, where she to lived on her brother's sugar plantation. In 1918, she moved to Sydney,Australia.

In March 1920, she married Percy G. Ashton, son of Julian Ashton CBE (1851–1942), an English-born Australian artist.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article129793324 |title=Sister artists |newspaper=News |volume=V |issue=644 |location=South Australia |date=17 August 1925 |access-date=10 June 2022 |page=5 (Home addition) |via=National Library of Australia}}