Mary Eliza Kennard [SEP] date of birth
Mary Eliza Kennard
Mary Eliza Kennard (1850–1936) was an English novelist and writer of non-fiction. Most of her work was published under the name of Mrs Edward Kennard.
Kennard specialised in stories of the English country house world of hunting, shooting, and fishing, and in her heyday was dubbed "the Diana of fiction", in honour of Diana, the Roman goddess of hunting.
Life.
Mary Eliza was born in Sydenham in 1850, the eldest daughter of Samuel and Mary Laing.
1931), who became Lord Wittenham, and Captain Walter Vavasour Faber (1857-1928), who succeeded his eldest brother as member for Andover. It has been claimed that they had a sister, Mary Eliza, who married Edward Kennard and was a sporting novelist as Mrs Edward Kennard. However this is contradicted by official birth and marriage records.
Political career.
Faber was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, and was a senior partner in Beckett′s Bank, Leeds and York. He was also Chairman