[2] She was given the middle name 'Arbuckle', a dedication to Margaret Arbuckle (d. 1892), the cousin of Jessie Newbery's father, William Rowat, after the death of his wife in 1873.
[4] This portrait, regarded as Cecile Walton's first major oil painting,[5] is held in the permanent collection of the National Galleries of Scotland.
[7] On 21 October 1918, Newbury married the artist and Captain of the Royal Scots Alick Riddell Sturrock (1885-1953)[8] in the Parish of Corfe Castle in Dorset.
[10] A set of embroidered cushions entered for the exhibition met with favourable reviews in The Scots Pictorial which noted Newbury's 'fine sense of colour and design are shown to great advantage.
[12] The titles of these artworks such as 'A July bouquet' (1940) and 'Dusty miller posy' (1946) demonstrates the naturalistic themes of her work and the lasting influence of Frances Macdonald and Charles Rennie Mackintosh who Mary was friendly with throughout her childhood and at the outset of her career, given the couple's close acquaintance with her father, Fra Newbery.
[7] She gave interviews in later life to art historians and biographers about her intimate knowledge of the Glasgow School in which she had grown and flourished as a successful artist in her own right.