Person’s Profile
Jane Mary (Dampier) Smith-Dampier (1836/7-Dec 1906)
Description
novelist, neighbour of CMY
Biography
Jane Mary Dampier and her sister Emily Dampier (b.1838/9) lived at Twyford House, Twyford. This accounts for her visiting (1870) with Mrs Buston, the wife of the vicar of Twyford. Jane married (1873) Alfred Fowler Smith and adopted the surname Smith-Dampier: she was the author of a novel, Journal of Lady Beatrix Graham (1870) which was published with an introduction by CMY. Some of her work was published as by Mrs Fowler Smith. In the 1871 census Jane Mary Dampier was living unmarried at Twyford House with her sister Emily Dampier (b.1838/9), describes her occupation as 'keeping things in order'. By the time of her death she was calling herself Smith-Dampier. They were daughters of John L. Dampier and Margaret Dampier; he was Vice-Warden of the Stannaries, and died 1851-61. [COPAC; 1871 census; 1841 census; death register]
