Biography of Thomas Woolner 1825-1892
7 Gower Street, Camden
St Giles' Church, Wrexham
Cartmel Priory, Lancashire
Thomas Woolner 1825-1892 is in Sculptors.
On or before 28 Oct 1816 Margaret Calder was born to Joseph Calder of Burnhouse and Elizabeth Waugh. Not known whether Elizabeth Waugh was related to the two Waugh sisters [his future sister-in-law] Fanny Waugh and Marion Edith Waugh who married William Holman Hunt, or their other sister [his future wife] Alice Gertrude Waugh who married Thomas Woolner.
On 17 Dec 1825 Thomas Woolner was born in Hadleigh, Suffolk.
After 1837 William Behnes (age 42) was tutor to Henry Weekes (age 29) and Thomas Woolner (age 11).
In Sep 1847 the Pre-Raphealite Brotherhood was formed at 7 Gower Street, Camden [Map], the home of John Everett Millais 1st Baronet (age 18). The founder members included brothers Dante Gabriel Rossetti (age 19) and William Michael Rossetti (age 17), and William Holman Hunt (age 20), John Everett Millais 1st Baronet (age 18) and Thomas Woolner (age 21).
On 09 Sep 1863 Ellen Mary Palmer died. Monument in St Giles' Church, Wrexham [Map] sculpted by Thomas Woolner (age 37).
Ellen Mary Palmer:
she was born to William Henry Roger Palmer 4th Baronet.
On 25 May 1857 Archibald Peel and she were married.
On 06 Sep 1864 Thomas Woolner (age 38) and Alice Gertrude Waugh were married. He had previously proposed to her sister Fanny Waugh (age 31).
On 28 Dec 1865 William Holman Hunt (age 38) and [his sister-in-law] Fanny Waugh (age 32) were married at Christ Church Paddington. William Michael Rossetti (age 36), and her brother and sister Emily and George were witnesses. She, Fanny, would die the following year eight days short of their anniversary. He would, ten years later, marry her younger sister Marion Edith Waugh (age 18); an example of Married to Two Siblings.
In Dec 1866 [his sister-in-law] Fanny Waugh (age 33) died either from childbirth or from cholera. She was buried at the English Cemetery, Florence next to Elizabeth Barrett Browning in a tomb sculpted by her husband William Holman Hunt (age 39).
In Nov 1875 William Holman Hunt (age 48) and Marion Edith Waugh (age 28) were married at Neuchâtel, Switzerland since marrying your late wife's sister was illegal in England - see 1835 Marriage Act. She his [his sister-in-law] first wife's younger sister contrary to English Law; an example of Married to Two Siblings. His brother-in-law Thomas Woolner (age 49) considered the marriage immoral; they never spoke again.
After 06 May 1882. Cartmel Priory, Lancashire [Map]. Monument to Frederick Charles Cavendish (deceased). Sculpted by Thomas Woolner (age 56). Marble effigy on alabaster tomb chest. See Phoenix Park Killings.
On 17 Oct 1892 Thomas Woolner (age 66) died from a stroke.
