Beatrix Marion Sturt

Beatrix Marion Sturt (21 November 1849 – 28 April 1944) was a British writer who contributed articles to the Dictionary of National Biography.

[4] In 1876, she married Napier George Sturt, an Australian-born colonel, in Thame, England.

[1][6] Her flattering 1899 biography of him is titled The Life of Charles Sturt.

[5][7] She also contributed several entries to the Dictionary of National Biography, under the initials B.M.S.

[8] She spent the majority of her later years in Bewdley, England, where she died in 1944 at age 95.

A painting of three children, including a young Beatrix Sturt, and a dog
Beatrix Sturt as a child in an 1853 painting, pictured with her brothers Francis Montagu Muirhead and Herbert Hugh Muirhead