Elizabeth Watts-Russell

ChristChurch Cathedral, with the western porch paid for by Watts-Russell

Elizabeth Rose Rebecca Watts Russell (1833 – 7 October 1905) was a New Zealand community leader. She was born in Ireland in about 1833.[1]

She married John Charles Watts-Russell and they emigrated to Canterbury on the Sir George Seymour.[1] After her husband's death, she married his friend, Alfred Richard Creyke. After Creyke died in 1893, she arranged for the western porch of the Christ Church Cathedral to be built in his memory.[1] On the south side of the cathedral's nave, there is also a Watts-Russell Memorial Window.[2] She died on 7 October 1905 at Horsham, West Sussex.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Smith, Jo-Anne. "Elizabeth Rose Rebecca Watts Russell". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved December 2011.
  2. ↑ "The Nave - Southern Side". ChristChurch Cathedral. Retrieved 5 June 2010.