Assorted rogues - Person Sheet
Assorted rogues - Person Sheet
NameRev. Edward Evelyn Barber 
14
14Spouses
Birth1877, Eastbourne, Sussex
FatherReginald John Graham (1822-1897)
MotherEllen Leah Boileau (1838-1918)
Marriage15 Jul 192014
Notes for Rev. Edward Evelyn Barber
Rector of Ongar from 1913 to 1928.14
Notes for Olivia (Spouse 1)
F.R.G.S., m. 15 July, 1920, Rev. Edward Evelyn Barber, Rector of Ongar 1913-1928 (Grangehurst, 138, High Road, Woodford Wells, Essex). Apparently she was of a scientific bent. I like to believe she was good at it. It would be interesting to find out when she was admitted as FRGS, as I know that in the years just before and after 1900 there was a huge fuss about admitting women into that August and Learned Society. Olivia was not elected a Fellow in 1914, as I’ve looked through a complete list of Fellows from that date (Bell and McEwan (1996) The Admission of Women Fellows to the Royal Geographical Society, 1892-1914; the Controversy and the Outcome, Geographical Journal, 162(3):295.), and she isn’t on it. I suppose it’s not impossible that the FRGS, which appears in Burke, was simply made up, but I doubt it. I think it’s more likely she was elected later in life.
[GEC]25 calls her Aunt Olive and says she had no children.
For years I had only a single photograph of Aunt Olive, out of focus, repainted, and with horrible red cheeks, and knew very little more. But then, in 2010, Barry and Janet Graham (no relation) read my web page and sent me some scans from a book that Olivia had written27. She was a very keen motorist, back in the days when cars were not usually driven by ladies, and she was awfully proud of herself. She writes about her trips around the countryside, and down to London and back; ``Jim" Bond and Octavia and their two daughters visited, coming on the ship Rotorua on the 10th of April, 1912, their first visit to New Zealand together, and James's first visit for over 30 years.
This book contains a few more photographs of Olivia, then about 35 I suppose. She was clearly an interesting and strong-minded person, quite willing to step outside conventions and do whatever the hell she felt like doing. Probably not too dissimilar from her siblings, one suspects.
A few years ago (before 2018) my parents were able to purchase a copy of Olivia’s book “Memoirs of a Lady Motorist”, and Mum painstakingly photographed the entire thing so that I could put it up on my web page. The whole thing can be found in the multimedia section.
[GEC]25 calls her Aunt Olive and says she had no children.
For years I had only a single photograph of Aunt Olive, out of focus, repainted, and with horrible red cheeks, and knew very little more. But then, in 2010, Barry and Janet Graham (no relation) read my web page and sent me some scans from a book that Olivia had written27. She was a very keen motorist, back in the days when cars were not usually driven by ladies, and she was awfully proud of herself. She writes about her trips around the countryside, and down to London and back; ``Jim" Bond and Octavia and their two daughters visited, coming on the ship Rotorua on the 10th of April, 1912, their first visit to New Zealand together, and James's first visit for over 30 years.
This book contains a few more photographs of Olivia, then about 35 I suppose. She was clearly an interesting and strong-minded person, quite willing to step outside conventions and do whatever the hell she felt like doing. Probably not too dissimilar from her siblings, one suspects.
A few years ago (before 2018) my parents were able to purchase a copy of Olivia’s book “Memoirs of a Lady Motorist”, and Mum painstakingly photographed the entire thing so that I could put it up on my web page. The whole thing can be found in the multimedia section.