Younghusband, Adela Mary (1878–1969)

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Younghusband, Adela Mary (1878–1969)

New Zealand painter, art teacher, and photographer. Name variations: Adela Mary Roche. Born April 3, 1878, at Te Awamutu, New Zealand; died April 3, 1969, in Auckland, New Zealand; dau. of Hungerford Roche (farmer and politician) and Emily Adela (Malcolm) Roche; m. Frank Younghusband (grocer, d. 1921), 1905; children: 2 sons, 1 daughter.

Taught art in Hamilton (Auckland, late 1910s and 1940s); managed photographic studio in Whangarei (1920s); co-established Whangarei Art and Literary Society (1920s); returned to painting and exhibited in Australia and New Zealand; founded Phoenix Group (1952), and Studio Art Group (1957); work represented in numerous private and public collections.

See also Dictionary of New Zealand Biography (Vol. 4).

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