Kate Muriel Mason Eadie (4 May 1880''1939 England and Wales Register'' – 8 November 1945) was a British

jeweller A bench jeweler is an artisan who uses a combination of skills to make and repair jewelry. Some of the more common skills that a bench jeweler might employ include antique restoration, silversmithing, goldsmithing, stone setting, engraving, ...

and craftswoman in

Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands (county), West Midlands, within the wider West Midlands (region), West Midlands region, in England. It is the Lis ...

, working in the

Arts and Crafts The Arts and Crafts movement was an international trend in the Decorative arts, decorative and fine arts that developed earliest and most fully in the British Isles and subsequently spread across the British Empire and to the rest of Europe and ...

style. Eadie was born to Richard William Eadie (1851–1920) and Fanny Sophia Eadie, née Mason (1857–1938). In September 1940, she married the Birmingham

Pre-Raphaelite The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB), later known as the Pre-Raphaelites, was a group of English painters, poets, and art critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, ...

painter

Sidney Meteyard Sidney Harold Meteyard Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, RBSA (2 November 1868 – 4 April 1947) was an England, English Art education, art teacher, painting, painter and stained-glass designer. A member of the Birmingham Group (artists), Birmi ...

, whom she met when she studied at

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, having modelled for many of his pictures, including the drawing ''Jasmine''. They worked together on

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. A well as jewellery, she made larger items such as

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

Royal Birmingham Society of Artists The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (RBSA) is an art society, based in the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham, England, where it owns and operates an art gallery, the RBSA Gallery, on Brook Street, just off St Paul's Square, Birmingham, St Pa ...

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

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, Birmingham.

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''Jasmine'', by Sidney Harold Meteyard
1880 births 1945 deaths Arts and Crafts movement artists Artists from Birmingham, West Midlands Members and Associates of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists English jewellers Alumni of the Birmingham School of Art British women jewellers {{UK-artist-stub