Elizabeth Watts-Russell
New Zealand community leader
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Elizabeth Rose Rebecca Watts-Russell (1833/34 – 7 October 1905) was a New Zealand community leader. As Elizabeth Rose Rebecca Bradshaw, she was born in Ireland in about 1833.[1]
She married John Watts-Russell and they emigrated to Canterbury on Sir George Seymour in 1850.[1] After her husband's death on 2 April 1875, she married his friend, Alfred Richard Creyke on 28 April 1877 at the British Embassy in Paris.[2] After Creyke died in 1893, she arranged for the western porch of the ChristChurch Cathedral to be built in his memory.[1] On the south side of the cathedral's nave, there is also a Watts-Russell Memorial Window.[3]
She died, aged 71, on 7 October 1905 at Holbrook, Horsham in West Sussex.[1] She was buried at Brompton Cemetery, London.[4]
