Frances Ward
Frances Mary Brown (née Ward) (22 January 1912 – 29 June 1987) was the Foundation Mayoress of Porirua City, New Zealand for 21 years.
Background
Frances Mary Brown (née Ward) has a rather illustrious lineage. Frances is the youngest daughter of New Zealand astronomer Joseph Thomas Ward and his wife Ada Evelyn Wright. Ada Wright was a descendant of the Privateer Fortunatus Wright of Liverpool. She also has several renowned relatives such as Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister during World War II.
Career
Frances Brown was Mayoress at the opening of the Royal New Zealand Police College on 1 April 1981 in Porirua, along with her husband Whitford Brown Mayor of Porirua and HRH Prince Charles the Prince of Wales, who officially opened the college for use.
Private Life
Frances Mary Brown, also known as "Francie", was the wife of Whitford Brown, the Foundation Mayor of Porirua City, Wellington, New Zealand for 21 years (1962–1983).
Legacy
"Frances Brown Avenue " in Porirua, which is off Whitford Brown Avenue, is named after her.
Sources
- Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) "Ward Double's"
- Orchiston, Wayne. "Ward, Joseph Thomas 1862–1927". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 10 April 2011.
- Husband; Mayor Whitford Brown's obituary; The Evening Post (Wellington,New Zealand, 14 April 1986).
- Perpetue Catherine de Paul de Lamanon d'Albe, Wilbraham Frederick Evelyn Liardet; Romantic Visionary of the Beach, 1839–62; The "La Trobe" Journal"
- Final resting place:, from the Porirua City Council
- New Zealand Society of Genealogists; N.Z. First Families; Surnames: Wright, Liardet, Ward, Prideaux, Evelyn, de Lamanon d'Albe
- 50th Golden Wedding Anniversary: Article In The Wellington Paper. Mayoral Couple Celebrate - By Tim Donoghue
- The Wanganui Registar's Office.
- Peter the Great stays at Diarist; Sir John Evelyns' Sayes Court
- The Plantagenet Rolls; "Of The Blood Royal" Descendants of: Prideaux, Sir Peter.
- Nineteenth Century New Zealand Artists: A Guide & Handbook, Liardet, Sydney Evelyn RN 1825–1857
- Tripartite Indenture dated 12 October 1770, Charles Evelyn of Totnes and Philippa Wright his wife
- The Blood Royal of Britain: Being a complete Roll of the Living Descendants of Edward Plantagenet
- Debrett's Baronetage of England: Containing Their Descent and Present State "Evelyn of Wooton" ... By John Debrett
- Dictionary of National Biography, By Leslie Stephen,Sidney Lee; Published 1893 by Smith, Elder
- The Gentleman's Magazine,1867 - Page 401
- Entire reference to Frances Ward's Lineage Mother,Father etc. From: A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry, page 309
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