Cockburn, Patricia (1914–1989)
Cockburn, Patricia (1914–1989)
Scottish artist, conchologist, writer, and traveler. Name variations: Patricia Arbuthnot; Patricia Byron. Born Patricia Evangeline Ann Arbuthnot, Mar 17, 1914, in Rosscarbery (Co. Cork), Ireland; died Oct 6, 1989; attended Westminster College of Art; m. Arthur Byron (underwriter), 1932 (div. 1939); Claud Cockburn (Communist journalist), 1940 (died 1981); children: (1st m.) 1; (2nd m.) 2.
Respected traveler, journalist and equestrian, mapped languages and took photographs of groups of Pygmies in the Congo for Royal Geographical Society's Sir William Goodenough (1930s); worked as journalist in Ireland; edited the Week (later Private Eye) and published The Years of the Week (1968); created shell pictures. Other publications include Figures of Eight (1985), an autobiography.