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Countess Morphy
Countess Morphy, née Marcelle Azra Hincks (c.1874 - 1938) was an American-British food writer, dance critic, and cookery demonstrator, famed for her book on world gastronomy.
==Biography==
Countess Morphy was the nom de plume adopted by the food writer christened Marcelle Azra Hincks. She was born in New Orleans, USA and as a girl came to England. According to UK census records she was 17 in 1891. Evidence of her early life is sparse, and confusing. In 1891 she was described in the census as a ’visitor born in the USA’ living at 30, Church Street, Kensington, with Mrs Louise Hinks (her mother) and half-siblings Lili and John Pemberton. The head of the household was Alfred de Cros, managing director of a mining corporation who was born in Ireland. The four servants living in the house indicate a comfortable middle-class existence.〔1891 Census〕 In the census a decade later she is described as the stepdaughter of Alfred de Cros and on occasion she used this surname.〔 She became a naturalised Englishwoman in 1916 and in 1934 was married in Fulham to Ellert Webster Forbes.〔 Register of Births Marriages and Deaths, Fulham, Oct-Dec 1934.〕 She died at a comparatively early age only four years later in 1938 at “Sorrento”, Lyme Regis, the “beloved wife of Major Ellert Forbes”.〔 ''The Times'' (London, England), Thursday, Apr 28, 1938; pg. 1; Issue 47980.〕
She is buried in the Church of St Candida and Holy Cross in Whitchurch Canonicorum, for, in 1939, Ellert Forbes, in a letter to ''The Times'' appealing for funds for the restoration of that church, mentions that his wife is buried there not far from the tomb of Saint Candida. He thinks this might be of note to those interested in “international gastronomy”, and that “It was not her only aim to teach the appreciation of good food, but she hoped that by telling us how other nations fared, we might learn to understand each other better and to live more peaceably.”〔 ''The Times'' (London, England), Wednesday, Apr 19, 1939; pg. 10; Issue 48283〕
There is a story behind her adoption of the name Countess Morphy. In the eighteenth century an Irish aristocrat, Michael Morphy, took his family to Spain. A son, Don Diego Morphy, settled in Louisiana. He was in San Domingo when the French Revolution began and fled aboard an English ship to Charleston, South Carolina. By a second marriage he had a daughter, Emma, who married David Hincks. Marcelle was a descendant of this union, giving her some connection with the surname Morphy.〔Fred Kelso, ''For The Love of Fungus, etc,'' 2009, drawing on: Mrs Regina Morphy-Voitier,''The life of Paul Morphy in Vieux Carre of New-Orleans and Abroad'',1926.〕
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