Theresa Georgina Sassoon

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Theresa Thornycroft (1853–1947) was an English sculptor and painter.

Theresa Thornycroft was born in 1853. She was a member of the Thornycroft family. Her father was Thomas Thornycroft (1815-1885) and her mother, Mary Francis (1814–1895).[1] Her brother Sir Hamo Thornycroft RA, sisters Alyce Thornycroft and Helen Thornycroft were all artists, while her brother Sir John Isaac Thornycroft was the founder of the Thornycroft shipbuilding company.

A gifted artist, she exhibited her paintings at the Royal Academy of Arts in London before she turned twenty-two.

She married Alfred Ezra Sassoon (1861-1895) of the Jewish Sassoon family.[1][3] Because she was Anglo-Catholic, he was disinherited by the Sassoon family for marrying her.[3] They had three sons:

• Michael Thornycroft Sassoon (1884-1969).[1][3]
• Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967).[1][3]
• Hamo Watts Sassoon (1887-1915).[1][3]

After they separated, she continued to live in the village of Matfield in Kent, and was immortalised in the memoirs of her son Siegfried.