Categories: Notables. Walter Bertram Potter - Walter Bertram "Bertram" Potter. Brother of Helen Beatrix Potter Heelis. Profile manager : Sandie Schwarz [ send private message ]. Profile last modified 26 Apr Created 23 Jul Sponsored Search. Is Walter your ancestor? Please don't go away! Login to collaborate or comment , or contact the profile manager, or ask our community of genealogists a question.
Sponsored Search by Ancestry. Search Records. June Frederick Warne, in serious financial trouble, ask Beatrix for a new book. June 22 Bertram Potter dies at home in Scotland, of a cerebral haemorrhage, aged forty-six. She buys a house and car for the nurse. The Potter family home in London, 2 Bolton Gardens, is sold. The title is not changed in USA until s. September 21 Thirteen-year-old Henry P. Coolidge from Boston visits Beatrix.
The Fairy Caravan would be dedicated to him. It is not published in the UK until July September Beatrix wins silver challenge cup for best Lake District Herdwick ewe. USA edition has more illustrations. Never issued in the UK. December 20 Helen Potter dies aged ninety-three.
July Beatrix buys second Pekinese puppy, Chuleh. April Beatrix returns to Castle Cottage to convalesce. July 3 Watches sheep shearing and cattle herding at Troutbeck Park Farm. September 3 Britain and France declare war on Germany.
October Beatrix and William buy pony cart to help stretch petrol ration. Beatrix supervises farm work and breeds rabbits to supplement meat ration. Willie serves on War Agricultural Committee and as reserve policeman. May Louie Choyce returns to Hill Top to help on the farm. December 7 Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. She would have been the first woman President of the Association.
She would not live to see publication. December 10 Beatrix struck down by bronchitis and heart trouble. December 22 Seventy-seven-year-old Beatrix Potter Heelis dies in the night at Castle Cottage, her husband by her side.
The joint Heelis properties, over 4, acres with seventeen farms and eight cottages, are bequeathed to the National Trust. Text copyright Judy Taylor, This website uses cookies to improve your experience.
We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. Accept Read More. Close Privacy Overview This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Edmund, Beatrix's grandfather, owned a calico printing works and was co-founder of the Manchester School of Design. The family had artistic leanings. Helen, her mother, was a fine embroiderer and watercolourist, and her father Rupert, though qualified as a barrister, focused much of his time on his passion for the new art form of photography he was elected to the Photographic Society of London in Rupert Potter's favourite photographic subject was Beatrix.
Photography was then a laborious process but Beatrix appears to have endured patiently the elaborate choreography and the camera's uncomfortably long exposure. The photographic record of Beatrix's life from childhood to marriage captures her at home in London, on holiday in the countryside, formal amongst family, or relaxed among her pet dogs and rabbit, Benjamin Bouncer.
It was Beatrix's delight to accompany her father on photographic expeditions. Happy to be by his side and excited by the possibilities of the new art form, she also became an avid photographer. She later inherited one of her father's old cameras, "a most inconveniently heavy article…which has been breaking my back since I took to that profession". Through photography, Rupert instructed Beatrix in the art of composition, and she took photographs to record details that she would later use in her art.
As a Victorian middle-class girl, Beatrix had a typically restricted and often lonely childhood. She rarely spent time with her mother and father and, educated at home by a governess, had few opportunities to meet other children. In art, she was self-taught at first. She would later say that she was grateful for this; a less neglected education "would have rubbed off some of the originality". By the age of eight, Beatrix was filling home-made sketchbooks with drawings of animals and plants copied from nature or from books and drawing manuals.
Beatrix's love of animals and art was shared by her brother Bertram who himself later became a professional artist and etcher. The pair spent hours watching and studying the menagerie of pets in their schoolroom: frogs, a tortoise, salamanders, and occasional mammals caught in the garden bats, mice, hedgehogs and rabbits , which were smuggled into the house in paper bags.
Annual holidays in Perthshire and, later, the Lake District, gave Beatrix and Bertram the chance to roam freely in the countryside and they sketched and even dissected a wide variety of animals and birds. Once Bertram went to boarding school, Beatrix spent most of her adolescence on her own.
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