Richard Charles Staples-Browne
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| Born | 1881 | ||||||||
| Died | 1932 | ||||||||
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Bampton, Oxfordshire[A63] Brashfield House, Bicester, Oxon [1919] | ||||||||
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1920.01.13 proposed by A.W.F. Fuller, seconded by H.S. Harrison
Notes From Elsewhere
[Abstract from Nature] RICHARD STAPLES-BROWNE, ‘of Butler's Court, Alvescot, Oxfordshire, who died on June 5, was born in 1881, and from Rugby School went up to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, taking his degree by the Natural Sciences Tripos of 1902. He then commenced the medical courses, but the endocrine trouble which afflicted him throughout life called for a voyage round the world before he passed his second M.B. examination in 1906. About this time he came under the influence of William Bateson and relinquished medical study for biology, always his chief interest.
Marriage of Richard Charles Staples-Browne – March 1909
Marriage of Richard Charles Staples-Browne
The entry for the parish of Oddington in the March 1909 edition of the Islip Rural Deanery Magazine contained the following entry:-
“The marriage of Richard Charles Staples Browne with Sylvia Maude, daughter of Lady Huntingdon, created great interest in this little village.
Mrs Hall of Brough Furlong Farm, kindly undertook the pleasant task of collecting money for a wedding gift, and she found everyone most anxious to contribute something in remembrance of the numerous acts of kindness and generosity shown to tenants and parishioners by the father and grandfather of the bridegroom.
A nicely illuminated address, framed in light oak by J. Vincent, High Street, Oxford, read as follows:-
To Charles Richard Staples Browne Esq., on his marriage to Miss Sylvia Maud Huntingdon, February 17th 1909.
Dear Sir,
We, your tenants and other inhabitants of the Parish of Oddington, ask your acceptance of the accompanying silver fruit dish as a small token of our esteem for your family and appreciation of the many kindnesses received from them.
At the same time we wish you and Mrs C R Staples Browne many years of health and prosperity to enjoy the blessings of a happy married life.
We remain
Your faithful friends and well wishers, ...
Richard and Sylvia were married on 17 February 1909. Sadly, Sylvia died on 29 June 1910.
[SECOND MARRIAGE: SEE WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE for Makereti Papkura] ... They group performed at Crystal Palace, the Palace Theatre and White City and were accompanied by an exhibition of Maori artefacts, including a meeting house and storehouse. The tour was highly successful in terms of positive publicity and attention, however it was beset by financial problems. About half the group decided to stay in England, and 4 of the women married Englishmen.[3] The remainder of the group returned to New Zealand in late 1911. Papakura was blamed both for the financial issues and for the group members who hadn't come back. She stayed in New Zealand only briefly and she then returned to England where she continued a relationship with Richard Staples-Browne. She had first met him in 1907 when he had toured New Zealand. The couple were married in 1912 and they lived in Staples-Browne's country home in Oxfordshire, Oddington Grange[1][2]
During World War I, Papakura and her husband opened their homes in Oxfordshire and London to injured New Zealand troops, and Papakura installed a memorial to fallen Australian and New Zealand Army Corps soldiers in the chapel at Oddington.[2] In 1924, Papakura moved into Oxford and enrolled to study a Bachelor of Science degree in anthropology at university. She wrote a thesis on Maori culture, which she took to the elders at Whakarewarewa for approval before submitting it. Papakura died suddenly three weeks before her thesis examination, on 16 April 1930, from a ruptured aortic artery.[1] She was buried, according to her wishes, in Oddington cemetery; her family in Whakarewarewa erected a memorial to her in the village the following year.
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External Publications
On the inheritance of colour in domestic pigeons, with special reference to reversion. 1908 Journal of Zoology