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| Pagoda on the Irrawaddy near Mandalay, by Edith Pinhay |
Because I have a lot of post cards on my web site - together with pages on the publishers - I occasionally get questions about post cards which have nothing to do with Hertfordshire. I recently got a request to identify Edith Pinhay, who painted views of Tigyaing, Myanmar (Burma) in 1908, which appear on Tuck's "Wide Wide World" series of post cards. Normally I ignore such way out requests but this one caught my imagination.
I discovered that Edith Ogilvie Lovell was born in
Calcutta (Kolkata, West Bengal) in about 1874 and was staying with her sisters
Mrs Dora Turner and Miss Effie Lovell in Colchester, England, at the time of the
1891 census. She married Arthur Francis Pinhay, 2nd son of Sir Robert Hill
Pinhay in India, and, in addition to painting pictures of Burma returned to
England where she died in 1957. In addition I was able to pass on the email address of someone researching the family.
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