Edith (Ayrton) Zangwill (1875 - 1945)

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Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Marriage 1.2 Census 2 Sources

Biography

The author of six novels, the daughter of the distinguished electrical engineer and physicist William Edward Ayrton FRS (1847–1908) and stepdaughter of Ayrton's second wife, also a distinguished physicist, Phoebe Sarah (Hertha) Marks Ayrton (1854–1923). Edith's mother, Matilda Charlotte Chaplin Ayrton (1846–1883), one of the first women's medical doctors in Britain, had died in 1883 and Edith was brought up by Hertha, who was Jewish.

Edith attended Bedford College, London University. Author of six novels, Barbarous Babe (1904), The First Mrs Mollivar (1905), Teresa (1909), The Rise of a Star (1918), The Call (1924), which focused on the emancipation cause, and The House (1928).

She married Zangwill on 26 November 1903. They had three children: Ayrton Israel (George; b. 1906), an engineer and worked in Mexico; Oliver Louis Zangwill (1913–1987), a professor of experimental psychology at the University of Cambridge (1952–81); and Margaret (1910–c.1990), who suffered from a mental condition and was institutionalized.

Marriage

• "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:26Q4-JVW : accessed 28 April 2016), Edith Ayrton, 1903; from “England & Wales Marriages, 1837-2005,” database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing 1903, quarter 4, vol. 1A, p. 172, Paddington, London, England, General Register Office, Southport, England.

Census

• "England and Wales Census, 1901," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X9JQ-KLZ : accessed 28 April 2016), Edith C Ayrton in household of Phoebe S Ayrton, Woodham Walter, Essex, England; from "1901 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing Maldon subdistrict, PRO RG 13, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey.

Sources

• William Baker, Zangwill, Israel (1864–1926), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 23 September 2004, accessed 21 January 2024.
• Wikidata: Item Q42744783, en:Wikipedia