Elizabeth Watts-Russell

Elizabeth Rose Rebecca Watts-Russell (1833 – 7 October 1905) was a New Zealand community leader.

As Elizabeth Rose Rebecca Bradshaw, she was born in Ireland in about 1833.

[1] She married John Watts-Russell and they emigrated to Canterbury on Sir George Seymour in 1850.

[2] After Creyke died in 1893, she arranged for the western porch of the ChristChurch Cathedral to be built in his memory.

[1] On the south side of the cathedral's nave, there is also a Watts-Russell Memorial Window.

ChristChurch Cathedral, with the western porch paid for by Watts-Russell