Mary Hannay Foott was born at Glasgow to a merchant, James Black, and his wife Miss Grant.
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She was afterwards one of the first students at the Melbourne National Gallery Art School, and also studied painting under Louis Buvelot.
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Foott's younger son was killed in action at Passchendaele in September 1917, and she was survived by her other son, Brigadier-General Cecil Henry Foott, C.B., C.M.G., who was born on 16 January 1876, educated as an engineer, and serving with distinction through the great war was six times mentioned in dispatches.
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