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5 unusual facts about Emma Elizabeth Thoyts


Bryanston Square

Emma Elizabeth Thoyts (1860–1949, historian) was born in a house on the Square.

Emma Elizabeth Thoyts

In 1899, Emma married one of the last of the great Cope family from Bramshill House in Hampshire, John Hautenville Cope.

She wrote widely, particularly upon subjects related to Sulhamstead and the surrounding villages and the families who lived there.

Emma was born in Bryanston Square, Marylebone in Middlesex on 8 July 1860, the eldest daughter Maj. William Richard Mortimer Thoyts of Sulhamstead House in Berkshire and his wife, Anne Annabella Puleston.

The two settled in Finchampstead in Berkshire, where Emma died on 9 November 1949, having outlived her husband by seven years and a day.



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