Mary Edwards

Mary Edwards was found guilty on 19 March 1790 at Hereford, England, of stealing wearing apparel. Sentenced to 7 years transportation, she arrived in Sydney

Dr. Mary Walker was an American abolitionist, prohibitionist, prisoner of war in the American Civil War, and surgeon.

Born in Sydney in 1896, Mary Edwards studied art in Sydney and Paris. She is best known as a portrait painter, but also paints scenes from her frequent trips

A painter and carver, Edwards has been remembered largely for her adversarial role in the Dobell trial of 1944. A flamboyant figure she lived later in Fiji.

Mary Edwards Walker was born on November 26, 1832 in the Town of Oswego, New York. She was the fifth daughter of abolitionists Alvah and Vesta Whitcomb Walker.

Mary died at Kensington on 23 August 1743, aged thirty-eight and was buried at the same church as her father, Welham, Leicestershire.

Mary Edwards (c. 1704 – 23 August 1743) was an English heiress and art patron who was said to be the richest woman in England.