Elsie Garrett Rice

Elsie Garrett Rice (25 November 1869 Elton, Derbyshire - 27 April 1959 Cape Town[1] was a British-born South African botanical artist and suffragist.

She and her three siblings, John, Edmund and Amy, were orphaned at an early age and were raised by two of their cousins, sisters Millicent Fawcett and Agnes Garrett.

Millicent was a leader in the British Suffragist Movement and was married to Sir Henry Fawcett, sometime Postmaster-General, who had been blinded in a hunting accident.

At Bedales she met her future husband, Charles Emmanuel Rice, headmaster of King Alfred School, Hampstead.

By 1911, Elsie, was a 41-year-old art teacher and living at Steep, Hampshire with her 45-year-old husband and two children, Gabriel Edmund 11 and Agnes Rosemary 10, both born at Hampstead.