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Scottish author and contributor to the Dictionary of National Biography
A painting of three children, including a young Beatrix Sturt, and a dog
Beatrix Sturt as a child in an 1853 painting, pictured with her brothers Francis Montagu Muirhead and Herbert Hugh Muirhead

Beatrix Marion Sturt (21 November 1849 – 28 April 1944) was a British writer who contributed articles to the Dictionary of National Biography.

Beatrix Marion Muirhead was born in Hastings, England, in 1849. Her father was the Scottish lawyer James Patrick Muirhead.

In 1876, she married Napier George Sturt, an Australian-born colonel, in Thame, England. The couple had three children.

After being widowed in 1901, she settled for a period in Llanfrynach, in Wales. There, she became active in home-front fundraising efforts during World War I. She was also a vocal advocate for women's suffrage.

Sturt's primary legacy is as a biographer, including of her father-in-law, the Australian explorer Charles Sturt. Her flattering 1899 biography of him is titled The Life of Charles Sturt. She also contributed several entries to the Dictionary of National Biography, under the initials B.M.S. and B.N.S.

She spent the majority of her later years in Bewdley, England, where she died in 1944 at age 95.

References

  1. ^ "Newsletter 42". Breconshire Local & Family History Society. April 2015. Retrieved 22 July 2024.
  2. ^ "Beatrix Marion Sturt". State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 22 July 2024.
  3. ^ "Beatrix Marion STURT, nee MUIRHEAD". Author and Book Info. Retrieved 22 July 2024.
  4. "Mrs Pointer and the Drummond Family". Sussex PhotoHistory. Retrieved 22 July 2024.
  5. ^ Sturt, Charles (23 October 2017). The Central Australian Expedition 1844–1846 / The Journals of Charles Sturt. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-317-03928-0.
  6. "The Grange home in Adelaide's west turned into museum devoted to the achievements of explorer Charles Sturt". Adelaide AZ. Retrieved 22 July 2024.
  7. Rudolph, Ivan (27 June 2014). Sturt's Desert Drama. Boolarong Press. ISBN 978-1-925046-56-4.
  8. Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sir Sidney (1917). The Dictionary of National Biography: From the Earliest Times to 1900. Oxford University Press.
  9. "Links with Old Soho". The Birmingham Post. 16 May 1944.
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