Alice Hext

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Alice Hext was the owner of Trebah in Cornwall from 1907 to her death in 1939. She maintained the beautiful garden created by the Fox family. Both her father and her husband, bore names well-known among West Country gentry^[1]

She served as Justice of the Peace from June 1921 ^[2]until 1939 ^[3].

She was a noted benefactor in the Parish of Constantine, in particular, she gave the playing field and sports pavilion to the village in 1921 ^[4], in memory of her husband, Charles Hawkins Hext, a former High Sheriff of Cornwall (1915)^[5], who died in 1917.

[edit] Notes and References

1. ^ Henderson, Charles (1937). A history of the parish of Constantine in Cornwall. Truro: Royal Institution of Cornwall, 208 – 209. 
2. ^ Cornwall Record Office: Quarter Sessions Record Book 1920-1923, page 285, entry for June 28, 1921. Alice Hext and three other women sworn in as Justices
3. ^ Kelly's Directory of Cornwall 1939. 
4. ^ The book of Mawnan (2002) in by the Mawnan History Group: The Book of Mawnan: celebrating a South Cornwall parish. Tiverton, Devon: Halsgrove. ISBN 1-84114-148-8. 
5. ^ Cornwall Record Office: Document ref. no. D/R/157 Photograph of Sheriff's Coach with driver, footmen and policeman at Bodmin assizes. Charles Hawkins Hext, sheriff Date: 1915.