Violet Myers (11 May 1875 – 15 September 1943) was a classical singer and the wife of British diplomat William Algernon Churchill.
Overview
Violet Myers (11 May 1875 – 15 September 1943) was a classical singer and the wife of British diplomat William Algernon Churchill.
Early life
Hannah Violet Myers was born on 11 May 1875 in Birmingham, died on November 20, 1943, the oldest daughter of George Myers (b.1841) and Flora Wertheimer (1851–1921), granddaughter of Chief Rabbi Akiba Wertheimer and niece of German philosopher Constantin Brunner.
Her brother Walter was a distinguished physician and bacteriologist, and her younger sister Stella was a noted psychologist and psychotherapist.
Education
Myers went to King Edward's School, Birmingham, and Edgbaston High School, and then in 1893 to Girton College, Cambridge where she read Mediaeval and Modern Languages, matriculating in 1896 and receiving an MA in 1928.
