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Author: Josephine Chermside

Author: Josephine Chermside (1826–1894)

Alternate Name(s): Mrs. Henry Lowther Chermside (familiar name)

Biography: [Martha] Josephine Chermside was born on 15 December 1826 in Dublin, Ireland, the youngest daughter of James Price. Nothing is known of her early life. In 1847, she married Henry Lowther Chermside (1825–1886), the son of the physician Sir Robert A. Chermside. Her husband was an army officer in India and the West Indies who retired in 1878 at the rank of Major-General. The couple lived in Devon. Chermside wrote one novel, The Thorntons of Thornbury (1874). She died on 9 October 1894 in London.

Author Tags:

• Irish Authors

References: Boase (Henry Lowther Chermside); British Census (1881); Newry Telegraph (16 October 1894); Reilly (Henry Lowther Chermside)

Fiction Titles:

1. The Thorntons of Thornbury.  3 vol.  London: Samuel Tinsley, 1874.