“Katharine Adams 1862-1952”, is a biography of an English Arts and Crafts bookbinder. This research was carried out as part of a BA in Calligraphy & Bookbinding, 1997, from the Roehampton Institute, University of Surrey, London. Today a few moments on the internet gives me so many of those family details I then craved. 

 

Katharine Adams (in case you might be related to her and if so please get in contact) was the daughter of William Fulford Adams 1833-1921 and Catherine Mary Horton 1830-1912. Katharine Adams married in 1913 Edmund James Webb 1852-1945 son of Benjamin Webb and Maria Elphinstone Mill.

 

A photograph of Katharine Adams can be found in Marianne Tidcombe’s “Women Bookbinders 1880-1920” published in 1996 by the British Library. Katharine’s husband Edmund Webb’s portrait was painted by William Dacres Adams and can be found online.

 

Katharine Adams’ brother, William Dacres Adams, 1864-1951, was a painter who married Regina E Houghton 1873-1940 with whom he had a son Dacres Houghton Adams and a daughter Marie Regina (Molly) who married Wray Hunt and had a daughter, and a son called Harry. When Regina Houghton died in 1940 William Dacres Adams married Millicent Etheldreda Gray 1873-1957 a painter with, in 1911, a studio in 39 Holland Park Road: her sister Monica Frances Gray was also an artist.

 

I am also interested in anyone connected with Katharine’s assistant Georgina Gwendoline Hampshire 1876-1961.