SCHREIBER, LADY CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH (1812-1895)

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SCHREIBER, LADY CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH (1812-1895) , better known as Lady Charlotte Guest, Welsh scholar and connoisseur of china, daughter of Albemarle Bertie, 9th

earl

EARL

of Lindsey, was born at Uffington

House

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

, Lincolnshire, on the 19th of May 1812. She married in 1833 Sir Josiah John Guest, manager and afterwards owner of the Dowlais iron-works near Merthyr Tydvil. Lady Charlotte Guest studied the Welsh language and literature, and published (3 vols., 1838-1849) The

Mabinogion

MABINOGION (plural of Welsh mabinogi, from mabinog, a
bard
- BARD
's apprentice)

, from the Llyfr Cock o Hergest, and other ancient Welsh Manuscripts, with an English

translation

TRANSLATION

and notes. A second edition without the Welsh text appeared in 1877, and in 1881 The Boy's

Mabinogion

MABINOGION (plural of Welsh mabinogi, from mabinog, a
bard
- BARD
's apprentice)

; being the earliest Welsh tales of King Arthur in the famous Red Book of Hergest, edited with an introduction by S. Lanier. Sir Josiah Guest died in 1852, and Lady Charlotte married in 1855 Charles Schreiber, M.P. for

Cheltenham

CHELTENHAM

and Poole. She made a valuable collection of English

porcelain

PORCELAIN

and china, now in the

South

SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

Kensington Museum, another of fans and fan leaves, presented to the British Museum, and a third of playing cards, part of which is in the British Museum. On all three subjects she left elaborate

treatises

TREATISES

. She died on the 15th of January 1895 at Canford Manor, Dorset, at the

house

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

of her eldest son Ivor Guest, Baron Wimborne.
Editions of Lady Charlotte Guest's

translation

TRANSLATION

of the Mabinogion are in The Temple Classics (1902), The Welsh Library (1902), &c.

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