Mary Townsend (artist)

Mary Townsend (1822 – 31 December 1869) was an artist and an early English settler in Canterbury, New Zealand.

[1] Her father was James Townsend (1788–1866),[2] whose first home in Canterbury gave its name to the Christchurch suburb of Ferrymead.

[1] She had already had some years of art training in England before emigrating, and on arrival she continued to paint.

[8] On 20 November 1851 she married William Donald, Medical Officer of Health for Lyttelton.

[9] Her elder sister Frances married William John Warburton Hamilton in 1855.