Albinia Wherry

Albinia Lucy Wherry (18 October 1857 – 4 March 1929) was a British nurse and author, best known for her works on the subjects of biography, art, and folklore. She was the oldest daughter of British colonial administrator and linguist Robert Needham Cust and Maria Hobart. She had one sister and two brothers. In 1881, she married surgeon George Edward Wherry and they produced a daughter, Beatrix Albinia, in 1888. Wherry also trained as a nurse at Leicester Infirmary.

During World War I, Wherry was stationed in Paris in the Women's Emergency Canteen at the Gare du Nord where she supported Allied forces from 1915-1918. Wherry is buried in St John the Baptist Churchyard. Her collected correspondence is archived by the University of Florida; additional work is found in the Wherry Collection at the British Library.

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Women's Emergency Canteen

Publications

• The Albinia Book (1929)
• Chronicles of Erthig on the Dyke (1914)
• Daniel Defoe (1905)
• Turner (1903)
• Stories of the Tuscan Artists (1901)
• Greek sculpture with Story and Song (1898)

Ancestry

Family of Albinia Wherry

16. Sir John Cust, 3rd Baronet               8. Brownlow Cust, 1st Baron Brownlow                       17. Etheldred Payne               4. Rev. Henry Cockayne Cust                             18. Sir Henry Bankes               9. Frances Bankes                       19. Frances Pembroke               2. Robert Needham Cust                                   20. John Needham, 10th Viscount Kilmorey               10. Francis Needham, 1st Earl of Kilmorey                       21. Anne Hurleston               5. Anna Maria Elizabeth Needham                             22. Thomas Fisher               11. Anne Fisher                       23. Margaret Pigot               1. Albinia Lucy Cust                                         24. John Hobart, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire               12. George Hobart, 3rd Earl of Buckinghamshire                       25. Elizabeth Bristow               6. Very Rev. Hon. Henry Lewis Hobart                             26. Vere Bertie               13. Albinia Bertie                       27. Anne Casey               3. Maria Adelaide Hobart                                   28. Blunden Moore               14. Richard Moore                       29. Bridget Ford               7. Charlotte Selina Moore                             30. James Trimmer               15. Charlotte Anne Trimmer                       31. Sarah Kirby

Further reading

• Mosley, Charles (ed). (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage. 107th ed. Vol 1. Genealogical Books. p. 544.

• Sherrington, C. E. R. (July 1975). Charles Scott Sherrington (1857-1952). Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 30 (1): 45-63. (subscription required)
• Medical News. The British Medical Journal, 1 (1058): 579-580. Apr. 9, 1881. (subscription required)
• New Members. The British Journal of Nursing. July 11, 1908. p. 28.
• Kerziouk, Olga (August 11, 2014). Albinia Lucy Wherry and Russian “knights” on war-time postcard. European studies blog. British Library. Retrieved September 5, 2014.
• Albinia Lucy Cust Wherry. Find a Grave. Retrieved September 5, 2014.
• A Guide to the Albinia Lucy Cust Wherry Correspondence. University of Florida Smathers Libraries. Special and Area Studies Collections. November 2004. Retrieved September 5, 2014.