▶Date of birth: 9 July 1902     Place of birth: Brimscombe, Gloucestershire

▶Father: Richard Lewis Grist   Mother: Adelaide Alberta Hunt

▶Spouse(s): Robert Leach    Date(s) of marriage: 22 July 1929   Place(s) of marriage: All Saints', Cheltenham

▶Occupation: At the time of her marriage, Elsbeth was a Governess

▶Lifestory: Elsbeth was bridesmaid at a cousin's wedding in Cheltenham around 1909, and also at her sister Joan's wedding in 1926. Her own wedding was follwed by a reception at the Pittville Pump Room, with catering by George's Ltd. Elsbeth accompanied her botanist (mycologist: fungi) husband to Nyasaland in Africa after her honeymoon in the Austrian Tyrol, and later on to Montego Bay, where they remained for many years, returning to Trumpington, Cambridge when he became a don at the University.

Address at death: Byrons Lodge, 63 High Street, Grantchester, Cambridgeshire. A son was born at Penrhyn, Cheltenham on 16 May 1935. Wealth at death £153,151.

▶Moved to Pittville from:  Briscombe, Gloucestershire    Moved from Pittville to: Nyasaland, Africa

▶Date of death:  10 May 1982    Place of death: Grantchester, Cambridge

▶Date of burial:     Place of burial: [Cremated]

▶Notes:     ID: 11920

Contributor(s): Peter Powis/JAS

Photographs courtesy of Peter Powis