Kate Muriel Mason Eadie (4 May 1880 – 8 November 1945) was a British

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and craftswoman in

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, working in the

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style. In September 1940, she married the Birmingham

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painter

Sidney Meteyard Sidney Harold Meteyard RBSA (1868 – 4 April 1947) was an English art teacher, painter and stained-glass designer. A member of the Birmingham Group, he worked in a late Pre-Raphaelite style heavily influenced by Edward Burne-Jones and the Arts ...

, whom she met when she studied at

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, having modelled for many of his pictures, including ''Jasmine''. They worked together on stained glass. A well as jewellery, she made larger items such as

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s. In 1915, she was elected an associate of the

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, with whom she had exhibited a case of jewellery in 1908–1909, a processional cross in 1909, and another case of jewellery in 1911. At one time, she lived at The Malthouse, Evesham Road,

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, Alcester, Warwickshire, with her sisters, and with Meteyard. She died on 8 November 1945.England & Wales, National Probate Calendar 1946

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''Jasmine'', by Sidney Harold Meteyard
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