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20 years after becoming engaged, she married Warington Baden-Powell at [[Dormition Cathedral, London|All Saints Church, Knightsbridge]] (now the Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Dormition of the Mother of God and All Saints) on 13 September 1913.<ref name="V&A">{{cite web |title=Wedding Dress 13 September 1913 (worn) |url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O352933/wedding-dress-reville-and-rossiter/ |website=V&A |access-date=6 February 2024}}</ref> Her wedding dress of white silk satin, made by Reville and Rossiter of [[Hanover Square, Westminster|Hanover Square]], is in the permanent collection of the V&A in London.<ref name="V&A"/> Also included are the train, shoes (by C. Moykopf, [[Burlington Arcade]]), stocking, gloves and a headdress of white ostrich plumes for when it was worn for a May Court in 1914.<ref name="V&A"/>
20 years after becoming engaged, she married Warington Baden-Powell at [[Dormition Cathedral, London|All Saints Church, Knightsbridge]] (now the Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Dormition of the Mother of God and All Saints) on 13 September 1913.<ref name="V&A">{{cite web |title=Wedding Dress 13 September 1913 (worn) |url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O352933/wedding-dress-reville-and-rossiter/ |website=V&A |access-date=6 February 2024}}</ref> Her wedding dress of white silk satin, made by Reville and Rossiter of [[Hanover Square, Westminster|Hanover Square]], is in the permanent collection of the V&A in London.<ref name="V&A"/> Also included are the train, shoes (by C. Moykopf, [[Burlington Arcade]]), stocking, gloves and a headdress of white ostrich plumes for when it was worn for a May Court in 1914.<ref name="V&A"/>


Baden-Powell died in 1921. In 1927 she married Montagu Sneade Faithfull Monier-Williams (1860–1931), British surgeon and doctor, and a widower with two children, and the son of [[Monier Monier-Williams]].<ref name="National Archives">{{cite web |title=Monier-Williams, Montagu Sneade Faithfull, (1860-1931), physician and surgeon |url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F64962 |website=National Archives |access-date=13 February 2024}}</ref>
Baden-Powell died in 1921. In 1927 she married Montagu Sneade Faithfull Monier-Williams (1860–1931), British surgeon, expert figure skater and writer, a widower with two children, and the son of [[Monier Monier-Williams]].<ref name="National Archives">{{cite web |title=Monier-Williams, Montagu Sneade Faithfull, (1860-1931), physician and surgeon |url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F64962 |website=National Archives |access-date=13 February 2024}}</ref><ref name="skateguard">{{cite web |title=Montagu Monier-Williams, The Doctor Who Treated Figure Skating |url=https://www.skateguardblog.com/2017/12/montagu-monier-williams-doctor-who.html |website=skateguard |access-date=13 February 2024}}</ref><ref name="BMJ">{{cite news |title=Obituary |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2315697/pdf/brmedj07450-0045a.pdf |access-date=13 February 2024 |work=BMJ |date=25 July 1931}}</ref> After the wedding they retired to the [[Château Royal de Collioure]] in [[Collioure]] in the French Pyrenees close to the Spanish border, where he was a keen viticulturist.<ref name="BMJ"/>


''Artemis Weds'' was reviewed by ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref name="NY Times">{{cite news |last1=WALLACE |first1=MARGARET |title=English Society in the Years Since 1925; ARTEMIS WEDS. By Cicely Farmer. 314 pp. New York: William Morrow & Co. $2.50. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1932/07/17/archives/english-society-in-the-years-since-1925-artemis-weds-by-cicely.html |access-date=6 February 2024 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=July 17, 1932}}</ref>
''Artemis Weds'' was reviewed by ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref name="NY Times">{{cite news |last1=WALLACE |first1=MARGARET |title=English Society in the Years Since 1925; ARTEMIS WEDS. By Cicely Farmer. 314 pp. New York: William Morrow & Co. $2.50. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1932/07/17/archives/english-society-in-the-years-since-1925-artemis-weds-by-cicely.html |access-date=6 February 2024 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=July 17, 1932}}</ref>

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Cicely Hilda Farmer
Born1870
One Tree Hill, Auckland, New Zealand
Died7 May 1955
Chelsea, London, England
NationalityBritish
OccupationNovelist
Spouse(s)
(m. 1913; died 1921)

Montagu Monier-Williams
(m. 1927; died 1931)
RelativesBaden Powell (father-in-law)
Monier Monier-Williams (father-in-law)

Cicely Hilda Farmer (1870 – 7 May 1955) was a New Zealand-born British novelist and travel writer.

She was born in One Tree Hill, Auckland in 1870, the daughter of James and Julie Farmer.[1]

Warington Baden-Powell, founder of the Sea Scouts, came ashore in New Zealand when his father Prof Rev Baden Powell died, and retrained there as a lawyer specialising in maritime law.[1] He met Farmer in Auckland and they became secretly engaged in 1893.[1] Farmer was presented at court in London as a debutant in 1893, and returned to New Zealand, where she lived until she married in 1913.[1]

20 years after becoming engaged, she married Warington Baden-Powell at All Saints Church, Knightsbridge (now the Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Dormition of the Mother of God and All Saints) on 13 September 1913.[2] Her wedding dress of white silk satin, made by Reville and Rossiter of Hanover Square, is in the permanent collection of the V&A in London.[2] Also included are the train, shoes (by C. Moykopf, Burlington Arcade), stocking, gloves and a headdress of white ostrich plumes for when it was worn for a May Court in 1914.[2]

Baden-Powell died in 1921. In 1927 she married Montagu Sneade Faithfull Monier-Williams (1860–1931), British surgeon, expert figure skater and writer, a widower with two children, and the son of Monier Monier-Williams.[3][4][5] After the wedding they retired to the Château Royal de Collioure in Collioure in the French Pyrenees close to the Spanish border, where he was a keen viticulturist.[5]

Artemis Weds was reviewed by The New York Times.[6]

In 1939, by deed poll, she renounced the surname Monier-Williams and was henceforth Cicely Hilda Baden-Powell again.[7] At the time, her address was Milden House, Dixwell Road, Folkestone, Kent.[7]

She died in Chelsea, London on 7 May 1955, and was buried in the Farmer family plot at St Andrews Cathedral's Eastern Cemetery, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland , alongside her first husband.

Publications

Novels

  • The Painted Show, 1924
  • Waters of Fayle, 1925
  • The Bending Sickle, William Morrow, New York, 1931
  • Anna, Faber and Faber, London, 1931
  • Artemis Weds, William Morrow, New York, 1932, dust jacket by Paul Wenck.[8]

Non-fiction

  • Dragons and a Bell, 1931 (about a trip through China, Malaysia, Burma, and Sri Lanka)
  • Sunrise Over India, Victor Gollancz, 1934 (another travel book)

References

  1. ^ a b c d Bird, Ron. "NZ SEA SCOUTS JOIN 100TH COMMEMORATION" (PDF). Professional Skipper. No. November/December 2009. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
  2. ^ a b c "Wedding Dress 13 September 1913 (worn)". V&A. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
  3. ^ "Monier-Williams, Montagu Sneade Faithfull, (1860-1931), physician and surgeon". National Archives. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  4. ^ "Montagu Monier-Williams, The Doctor Who Treated Figure Skating". skateguard. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  5. ^ a b "Obituary" (PDF). BMJ. 25 July 1931. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  6. ^ WALLACE, MARGARET (17 July 1932). "English Society in the Years Since 1925; ARTEMIS WEDS. By Cicely Farmer. 314 pp. New York: William Morrow & Co. $2.50". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
  7. ^ a b "London Gazette" (PDF). The London Gazette. 17 March 1939. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  8. ^ Salisbury, Martin (2017). The illustrated dust jacket, 1920–1970. London. pp. 186–187. ISBN 9780500519134. Retrieved 6 February 2024.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)