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Alice Hext (2 March 1865〔Birth Register: Entry No.401. Place of birth and residence of father: High Cross, St. Austell〕 - 14 September 1939〔Burke's ''Landed Gentry'' (1952) page 1220: Hext family〕) was a Cornish philanthropist, garden developer and magistrate. She was the owner of the Trebah Estate and leisure garden, near Falmouth in Cornwall from 1907 to her death in 1939,〔 〕 and generously supported the development of sports and social activities in the Parishes of Constantine and Mawnan.〔Obituary in ''The West Briton'': 21 September 1939 Page 6, Column e. "LOSS TO CORNWALL/ DEATH AT TREBAH OF MRS. CHARLES HEXT/ DEVOTED PUBLIC WORKER"〕 ==Birth & Marriage== Alice Petherick was born in St. Austell, on 2 March 1865, the daughter of George Petherick, a Bank Manager〔〔 and his wife, Emily (born Barratt).〔Burke's ''Landed Gentry'' (1952) page 2016: Petherick Family〕 She married Charles Hawkins Hext, a banker, on 16 April 1891 in Kensington.〔He was born 22 December 1851, the third son of Thomas Hext, JP. of Trenannen (1805-1881) and Rhoda Charlton Yeatman, his wife ( -1914). The family were six brothers and five sisters. Source: Burke's ''Landed gentry'', 1952.〕 Both her father and her husband bore names "well-known among West Country gentry". Charles and Alice Hext are shown in the 1901 census as resident at Polgwin in the civil parish of Bodmin, Cornwall. Charles is described as "Retired Banker" aged 49. Alice is shown as age 36.〔The 1901 census includes a coachman, a cook and two maids at Polgwin. All are shown as born in Cornwall (RG13/2201, pages 4 and 5).〕 In 1907, they moved to Trebah. Charles Hext served as Mayor of Bodmin in 1895〔Ernest Gaskell (No date but between 1906 and 1912) ''Cornwall's leaders: Social and Political'', London, EC: Queenhithe Printing & Publishing. Charles Hext was a JP on the Bodmin bench and "politically conservative and imperialist". His wife, Alice Hext, is described as the second daughter of George Petherick, of Porthpean Hill, St. Austell and of 2, Bramham Gardens, South Kensington. His hobbies were "sailing and gardening".〕 and as High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1915.〔Cornwall Record Office: Document ref. no. D/R/157 Photograph of Sheriff's Coach with driver, footmen and policeman at Bodmin assizes. ''Caption'': Charles Hawkins Hext, sheriff Date: 1915.〕 He died on 3 January 1917.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alice Hext」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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