METEYARD

Eliza (dau. of Wm. Meteyard, surgeon). b. Lime st. Liverpool 21 June 1816; lived at Shrews bury 1818–29, at Thorpe near Norwich 1829–42 and at Hampstead and London 1842 to death; contributed social articles and fiction to Eliza Cook’s Journal, People’s Journal, Tait’s Mag. .; author under pseudonym of Silver pen of some children’s books; author of Struggles for fame 3 vols. 1845; Main stone’s housekeeper 3 vols. 1860, 2 ed. 1865; The hallowed spots of ancient London 1862; The lady Herbert’s gentlewoman 3 vols. 1862; The life of Josiah Wedgwood 2 vols. 1865–6; A group of English men 1871; The Wedgwood handbook, a manual for collectors 1875; granted civil list pension of £60, 5 April 1869, and another of £40, 19 June 1874. d. Stanley place, Fentiman road, Clapham, Surrey 4 April 1879. bur. Woking cemet. 10 April, marble medallion portrait of her by G. Fontana is in Mayer public hall at Bebington near Birken head. Baines’s Hampstead (1890) 373–5.