Beatrix Lucia Catherine Tollemache (née Egerton, c. 1840 – 24 December 1926)[1] was a British writer, translator and poet.

[3] She was born in 1840 in Cheshire, and was the fourth and youngest daughter of William Egerton, 1st Baron Egerton of Tatton and Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Loftus, daughter of John Loftus, 2nd Marquess of Ely.

[6] Tollemache developed a career as a writer,[7] with her poems regularly published in The Spectator.

[8] She also contributed to the first Oxford English Dictionary[6] and corresponded with Sir Francis Galton.

In 1891, she published a translation of Jonquille, or the Swiss Smuggler from French, and co-wrote Safe Studies alongside her husband.