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Lady Christiana Jane Herringham nee Powell.
Miss Christiana Powell, born 1852, married Physician Sir Wilmot Parker Herringham K.C.M.G., C.B. (1855-1936) on the 1st of September 1880 at the Parish Church, Guildford, Surrey. Sir Wilmot Parker Herringham was awarded the (Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George, a British order of chivalry that honours individuals for their service in foreign affairs or overseas territories) Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Christiana became a Lady.
Lady Christiana Herringham nee Powell was a prominent painter. She opened the Powell’s Tillery Institute, Abertillery, along with her brother Mr Thomas Edmund Powell in 1898, she was presented with a golden key by the architect with which to open the building.
Lady Christiana Herringham died in 1929.