Beatrix Lucia Catherine Tollemache (, c. 1840 – 24 December 1926) was a British writer, translator and poet. She was the daughter of William Egerton, 1st Baron Egerton of Tatton and Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Loftus.

Family

She was born in 1840 in

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, and was the fourth and youngest daughter of William Egerton, 1st Baron Egerton of Tatton and Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Loftus, daughter of

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. She had seven siblings, including

Wilbraham Egerton, 1st Earl Egerton Wilbraham Egerton, 1st Earl Egerton (17 January 1832 – 16 March 1909) was an English Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party politician from the Egerton family. He sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons fro ...

and

Alan Egerton, 3rd Baron Egerton Alan de Tatton Egerton, 3rd Baron Egerton (19 March 1845 – 9 September 1920), known as the Honourable Alan Egerton from 1859 to 1907, was a British Conservative Party (UK), Conservative politician from the Egerton family. Egerton was a young ...

. On 25 January 1870, she married the Hon. Lionel Arthur Tollemache, son of

John Tollemache, 1st Baron Tollemache John Jervis Tollemache, 1st Baron Tollemache (; 5 December 1805 – 9 December 1890) was a British Conservative Party (UK), Conservative politician, landowner and peer who owned large estates in Cheshire. He was raised to the peerage of the ...

and Georgiana Louisa Best. They spent much of their married life enjoying long stays in luxury hotels in Europe, such as the Hôtel d'Angleterre in

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, and the Hôtel Sonnenberg,

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Career

Tollemache developed a career as a writer, with her poems regularly published in ''The'' ''Spectator''''.'' She also contributed to the first edition of the ''

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'' and corresponded with Sir

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. In 1890, she published ''Engelberg, and Other Verses''. In 1891, she published a translation of ''Jonquille, or the Swiss Smuggler'' from French, and co-wrote ''Safe Studies'' alongside her husband''.'' In 1900, she published ''Cranford Souvenirs, and Other Sketches''. She taught herself

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when she was in her seventies, with her obituary in recording that "the bent of her exceptional mind was shown by her mastery of the difficult Russian language, which she acquired when she was already a septuagenarian." In 1913, she published a translation of ''Russian Sketches, Chiefly of Peasant Life.''

Death

Tollemache died in 1926 in

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References

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Frontpieces of ''Engelberg, and Other Verses''
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The Honourable Beatrix Egerton (1840–1926), the Honourable Mrs Lionel Tollemache
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Beatrix Beatrix is a Latin feminine given name, most likely derived from ''Viatrix'', a feminine form of the Late Latin name ''Viator'' which meant "voyager, traveller" and later influenced in spelling by association with the Latin word ''beatus'' or "ble ...

Women lexicographers Wives of younger sons of peers Writers from Cheshire