Julia Katharine Rosalind Du Cane

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Julia Katharine Rosalind Du Cane

Birth
Roehampton, London Borough of Wandsworth, Greater London, England
Death
29 Jan 1963 (aged 87)
Fittleworth, Chichester District, West Sussex, England
Burial
Fittleworth, Chichester District, West Sussex, England Add to Map
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Julia was the twin sister of Isabel Constantia Louisa Du Cane. She never married.

Julia attended Oxford (before women were admitted for degrees) and on 2 August 1902 she was awarded a Class III from the Examiners in the Honour School of Modern History per the Oxford University Gazette publication.

She served with the British Red Cross Society Volunteers from November 1918 to March 1919 and her record described her as being a "good worker."

Julia offered the British Museum a small collection of objects from Egypt and Mesopotamia in 1951 (WAA deposit book 25/11/51, entry 592) and presented a second group of Mesopotamian antiquities to The British Museum in 1952, which had been given to her by her maternal uncle by marriage, Sir Austen Henry Layard (q.v.).

In the introduction of the book 'Layard of Nineveh' the biographer Gordon Waterfield recognized Julia's assistance when he wrote "I am especially indebted to Miss Julia Du Cane, niece of Lady Layard, for letting me have family letters, photographs and paintings."

UK GOV WILL:
DU CANE Julia Katharine Rosalind of Fittleworth House Pulborough Sussex spinster died 29 Jan 1963 Probate London 20 March to Mary Barbara Murray spinster and John Henry Wise solicitor.
Effects: £73,398 8s. 8d.
Julia was the twin sister of Isabel Constantia Louisa Du Cane. She never married.

Julia attended Oxford (before women were admitted for degrees) and on 2 August 1902 she was awarded a Class III from the Examiners in the Honour School of Modern History per the Oxford University Gazette publication.

She served with the British Red Cross Society Volunteers from November 1918 to March 1919 and her record described her as being a "good worker."

Julia offered the British Museum a small collection of objects from Egypt and Mesopotamia in 1951 (WAA deposit book 25/11/51, entry 592) and presented a second group of Mesopotamian antiquities to The British Museum in 1952, which had been given to her by her maternal uncle by marriage, Sir Austen Henry Layard (q.v.).

In the introduction of the book 'Layard of Nineveh' the biographer Gordon Waterfield recognized Julia's assistance when he wrote "I am especially indebted to Miss Julia Du Cane, niece of Lady Layard, for letting me have family letters, photographs and paintings."

UK GOV WILL:
DU CANE Julia Katharine Rosalind of Fittleworth House Pulborough Sussex spinster died 29 Jan 1963 Probate London 20 March to Mary Barbara Murray spinster and John Henry Wise solicitor.
Effects: £73,398 8s. 8d.

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JULIA Katharine Rosalind DU CANE
Born July 7, 1873 Died 1963

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