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HAFS Journal Vol 16 No 1 – May 2021 – Forebears ancient and modern

Editorial by Charles Sherlock; Everard de Hungreford: The quest for the first Hungerford ancestor by Peter Sherlock; Enid – a legend in her own lifetime by Pauline Tyrrell; “A pretty ordinary kind of bloke” Athol Gordon Townley – 1905-1963 by Lesley Greenwood and William Jacob Watriama (1880-1925): an advocate and his family by Lesley Abrahams

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Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

“The Duchess” – Margaret Wolfe Argles Hungerford

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” is a quote that is well known to all of us and was originally penned by Margaret Wolfe Argles Hungerford [H.2a=] (born 27 April 1859) in her book Molly Bawn, the story of a flirtatious and petulant Irish girl, who arouses her lover’s jealousy and naively ignores social conventions. Initially publishing under the nom de plume “The Duchess”, the life and times of Margaret Wolfe Argles Hungerford is celebrated annually on the “Duchess Who Wasn’t Day”.

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