Sarah Elizabeth Hay-Williams
Born
Lady Sarah Elizabeth Amherst

(1801-07-09)9 July 1801
Died8 August 1876(1876-08-08) (aged 75)
NationalityBritish
Known forwatercolour painting
Spouse
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(m. 1842; died 1859)​
Children2, including Margaret
Parent(s)William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst
Sarah Archer
Illustration by Sarah Elizabeth Hay-Williams

Lady Sarah Elizabeth Hay-Williams (née Amherst; 9 July 1801 – 8 August 1876) was an English artist and botanical illustrator.[1][2] She was born on 9 July 1801 to Sarah Amherst and William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst.[3] She travelled with her parents to India and while there completed several watercolour paintings now held in the collection of the British Library.[4][5][6] She later married Sir John Hay-Williams in 1842. In 1846 Hay-Williams contributed a watercolour to Edwards's Botanical Register.[7] After returning to the United Kingdom she had two children including Margaret Verney.[8] She died in 1876 at Chateau Rhianfa on 8 August 1876.[7]

The leguminous tree Amherstia nobilis is named by Danish botanist Nathaniel Wallich in honor of her and her mother Sarah Amherst.[9]

References

  1. ↑ Herbert, Eugenia W. (2011). Flora's Empire: British Gardens in India. Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 77. ISBN 9780812243260.
  2. ↑ "AMHERST, Lady SARAH ELIZABETH". British Library Archives and Manuscripts Collection. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
  3. ↑ "Sarah Elizabeth Amherst". www.ancestry.com. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
  4. ↑ Losty, Jeremiah P. (1990). Calcutta: city of palaces : a survey of the city in the days of the East India Company, 1690-1858. London: British Library. pp. 96–98.
  5. ↑ "The Buland Darwaza of the Jami Masjid, Fatehpur Sikri, near Agra (U.P.). 1829, from a sketch made in 1827". British Library. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
  6. ↑ "East wing of Government House, Calcutta". British Library. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
  7. 1 2 Lindley, John (1846). "Trichosanthes colubrina". Edwards's Botanical Register. 32: 18 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  8. ↑ "Sarah Elizabeth Williams". Geni. 2015. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
  9. ↑ Wallich, Nathaniel (1830). Plantae Asiaticae rariores. Vol. 1. London: Treuttel and Würtz. p. 1.
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