Sarah Elizabeth Hay-Williams

Sarah Elizabeth Hay-Williams
Sarah Elizabeth Hay-Williams
Born	Lady Sarah Elizabeth Amherst; 9 July 1801
Died	8 August 1876 (aged 75)
Nationality	British
Known for	watercolour painting
Spouse	Sir John Hay-Williams (m. 1842; died 1859)
Children	2, including Margaret
Parent(s)	William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst; Sarah Archer

Lady Sarah Elizabeth Hay-Williams (née Amherst; 9 July 1801 – 8 August 1876) was an English artist and botanical illustrator.^[1]^[2] She was born on 9 July 1801 to Sarah Amherst and William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst.^[3] She travelled with her parents to India and while there completed several watercolour paintings now held in the collection of the British Library.^[4]^[5]^[6] She later married Sir John Hay-Williams in 1842. In 1846 Hay-Williams contributed a watercolour to Edwards's Botanical Register.^[7] After returning to the United Kingdom she had two children including Margaret Verney.^[8] She died in 1876 at Chateau Rhianfa in Anglesey on 8 August 1876.^[7]

The leguminous tree Amherstia nobilis is named by Danish botanist Nathaniel Wallich in honor of her and her mother Sarah Amherst.^[9]

References

^ Herbert, Eugenia W. (2011). Flora's Empire: British Gardens in India. Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 77. ISBN 9780812243260.
^ "AMHERST, Lady SARAH ELIZABETH". British Library Archives and Manuscripts Collection. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
^ "Sarah Elizabeth Amherst". www.ancestry.com. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
^ Losty, Jeremiah P. (1990). Calcutta: city of palaces : a survey of the city in the days of the East India Company, 1690-1858. London: British Library. pp. 96–98.
^ "The Buland Darwaza of the Jami Masjid, Fatehpur Sikri, near Agra (U.P.). 1829, from a sketch made in 1827". British Library. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
^ "East wing of Government House, Calcutta". British Library. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
^ ^a ^b Lindley, John (1846). "Trichosanthes colubrina". Edwards's Botanical Register. 32: 18 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
^ "Sarah Elizabeth Williams". Geni. 2015. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
^ Wallich, Nathaniel (1830). Plantae Asiaticae rariores. Vol. 1. London: Treuttel and Würtz. p. 1.

External links

"Lady Sarah Elizabeth Amherst". Watercolour World.

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[1] Herbert, Eugenia W. (2011). Flora's Empire: British Gardens in India. Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 77. ISBN 9780812243260.

[2] "AMHERST, Lady SARAH ELIZABETH". British Library Archives and Manuscripts Collection. Retrieved 27 March 2019.

[3] "Sarah Elizabeth Amherst". www.ancestry.com. Retrieved 26 March 2019.

[4] Losty, Jeremiah P. (1990). Calcutta: city of palaces : a survey of the city in the days of the East India Company, 1690-1858. London: British Library. pp. 96–98.

[5] "The Buland Darwaza of the Jami Masjid, Fatehpur Sikri, near Agra (U.P.). 1829, from a sketch made in 1827". British Library. Retrieved 5 August 2019.

[6] "East wing of Government House, Calcutta". British Library. Retrieved 5 August 2019.

[:0-7] Lindley, John (1846). "Trichosanthes colubrina". Edwards's Botanical Register. 32: 18 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

[8] "Sarah Elizabeth Williams". Geni. 2015. Retrieved 26 March 2019.

[9] Wallich, Nathaniel (1830). Plantae Asiaticae rariores. Vol. 1. London: Treuttel and Würtz. p. 1.

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Sarah Elizabeth Hay-Williams
Born	Lady Sarah Elizabeth Amherst (1801-07-09)9 July 1801
Died	8 August 1876(1876-08-08) (aged 75)
Nationality	British
Known for	watercolour painting
Spouse	Sir John Hay-Williams (m. 1842; died 1859)
Children	2, including Margaret
Parent(s)	William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst Sarah Archer