| Name |
Caroline Frances Jane (Carr) Armstrong |
- Caroline Armstrong was an accomplished watercolour artist and she was commissioned to paint a miniature painting for Queen Mary's dollshouse. It is in a drawer in the dolls house and there is a letter in the family archive, from Queen Mary, thanking her for her submission.
Caroline Armstrong (1845 - 1937)
Royal Academy Collection: People and Organisations
Artist Caroline Frances Jane (Carr) Armstrong was baptized on 16 October 1845 at Hemsworth, Yorkshire. Daughter of Revd. Charles Edward Armstrong and Mary Ann Clayton. Her father was the Master Chaplain of Hemsworth Hospital, Yorkshire (born Mumbai in 1807). She never married and died on 10 April 1937 age 91, at Greenwich, London.
Admitted to the RA Schools aged 32 on 6 April 1881 to study painting.
She exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1885, 1887, 1892, 1894, 1895, 1897, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1911 and 1918, variously as Caroline, Car or Carr Armstrong.
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| Born |
Abt.1845 |
Hemsworth, Yorkshire, England  [1] |
| Christened |
16 Oct 1845 |
Hemsworth, Yorkshire, England [1] |
| Gender |
Female |
| Census |
1851 |
Hemsworth Hospital, Hemsworth, Yorkshire, England [2] |
| Census |
1861 |
Ashburnham House, The Grove, Blackheath, Greenwich, Kent, England [3] |
| Census |
1871 |
Holgates Hospital, Hemsworth, Yorkshire, England [4] |
| Died |
10 Apr 1937 |
Greenwich, Kent, England [5, 6] |
| Person ID |
I1758 |
Our Ancestral Heritage |
| Last Modified |
27 Nov 2021 |
| Father |
Reverand Charles Edward Armstrong, b. 06 Jan 1807, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India , d. 2 Apr 1872, Holgate Lodge, Hemsworth, Yorkshire, England (Age 65 years) |
| Mother |
Mary Anne Clayton, b. 1815, Market Drayton, Shropshire, England , d. 11 Jul 1901, Greenwich, Kent, England (Age 86 years) |
| Married |
18 Apr 1838 |
Bathwick, Bath, Somerset, England |
| Family ID |
F550 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Abt 1845 - 1937 (~ 92 years)
