Agnes Cuff

Mother of actor Alec Guinness.

From Alec Guinness : the authorized biography / Piers Paul Read < link >

Agnes Cuff, who later embellished her name to Agnes de Cuffe, was the youngest daughter of Edward Cuff and Mary Ann Cuff, ne;e Benfield. Edward Cuff, originally from Lambeth in South London, was a coastguard in Bournemouth on the south coast of England. In the 1891 census he and his wife were registered at 2 Coastguard Station in Bournemouth and at that time had seven children. The Benfields were a family local to that part of England, mostly stonemasons working from the quarries in Swanage, where Mary Ann's grandfather, Thomas Benfield, had a pub. Agnes, who was also called Ann, Agatha and even Agony by her siblings, was born on 8 December 1890, the seventh of twelve children.

References

• Alec Guinness : the authorized biography / Piers Paul Read < link >
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Guinness