Albinia Lucy Wherry (18 October 1857 – 4 March 1929), nee Cust, was a British nurse[1] and author, known for her works on biography, art, and folklore.
Two months later her barrister father set off for British India, then torn by rebellion, where he would make a reputation as a colonial administrator and linguist.
Her father returned from India; when back there in a senior administrative position, he took another wife, Emma Carlyon, who died in childbirth in 1867.
According to his biographer Peter Penner: Her illness in infancy had spoiled his camp life and taken Maria back to England (away from him) in 1860.
Alba on the other hand, wrote in 1881 that at nine years of age (1866) she was taken out of the "only home I ever knew" [...][5]As she grew up: [...] he only wanted friendships to be formed within his class.
Robert replied to Alba's letter "assuring her of my hearty forgiveness, as I hope that she and her baby would come and pay us a visit".
[10] During World War I, Wherry was stationed in Paris in the Women's Emergency Canteen at the Gare du Nord where she supported Allied forces from 1915 to 1918.
[13][14] The Chronicles of Erthig on the Dyke (2 vols., 1914) is about Erddig Hall in Wales, home of the Yorke family, who were related to Albinia Cust.
Thomas James Scott of Chilton Foliat), Philip's second wife, to omit matters "of a painful character".
"[19] It formed the basis of The Servants' Hall: the domestic history of a country house (first edition 1980; 1990, National Trust), a "below stairs" study by Merlin Waterson.
In that year Albinia explained to Simon that she had weeded the archive by removing recent family correspondence, as not of interest.