Key Information
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Ednie, Lily R
Parallel form(s) of name
- Epton, Lily Rebecca
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
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Description area
Dates of existence
1879-1946
History
Lily R Ednie studied as a mature student at The Glasgow School of Art from 1918/19 to 1920/21, as an afternoon student in Drawing and Painting.
Prior to her studies, in 1903, she married architect John Ednie. They moved to London in 1926 and in 1928 they then moved to Cairo, when John took up the post of Directory of the School of Applied Art, Guiza (or Giza) there. Lily returned to Britain in 1934, a year after her husband's death but later returned to Cairo.
She died in Newton Abbott in Devon on 22nd October 1946, aged 67.
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Source: Dictionary of Scottish Architects: https://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=200964; Family Search: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVCQ-SWJ7, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7XQX-3SMM