Esme Roberts

She was born on 13 December 1911^[2] (or possibly 8 December 1912),^[3] and raised in Sleaford, Lincolnshire.^[1] Roberts trained in Vienna and Munich.^[1]

Roberts created book covers, illustrations and Art Deco designs.^[1] Many examples of her work are on show in the Sleaford Museum.^[1]

Her 1934 and 1935 Art Deco posters advertising steamer cruises to the Royal Docks are in the permanent collection of the London Transport Museum.^[4][5]

In 1939, she married George Gordon Jeudwine (1913–1954) in Kensington, London, and they moved to Rauceby, Lincolnshire.^[1][6] He was the son of George Gordon Jeudwine and Alice Mildred Phelps, and the grandson of George Wynne Jeudwine (1849–1933). On his death on 20 October 1954, he was a solicitor of Peake, Snow & Jeudwine, 5 Market Street, Sleaford, and was living at Eastgate House, Sleaford.^[7]

In 1959, as Robina Jeudwine a now single woman, she travelled on a Compañía Transatlántica Española ship to Las Palmas in the Canary Islands.^[3] She died in 1995 in Gloucestershire.^[2]