He married Helen Leech (1839–1932) on 8 August 1863 at Hyde Unitarian Chapel, Gee Cross. Helen was the daughter of Jane Ashton (1806–1884) and John Leech, a wealthy cotton merchant and shipbuilder from Stalybridge. Helen's first cousins were siblings Harriet Lupton (née Ashton) and Thomas Ashton, 1st Baron Ashton of Hyde.

2017年7月9日 · Beatrix and Norman started out with a professional collaboration. They admired each other, sharing a warm, platonic relationship filled with humor and imagination. Their strong friendship deepened into love. Norman’s niece had described their unique relation as “the strangest of courtships,” adding that “They were never alone together.

(1871-1945), Solicitor; husband of Beatrix Potter. Sitter in 1 portrait Heelis was a solicitor from Hawkshead. He met Beatrix Potter when he acted for her in the purchase of Castle Farm in the Lake District village of Near Sawrey in 1909. The couple settled there after their marriage.

On July 28, 1866, Beatrix Helen Potter was born in Kensington, London, to Rupert William and his wife Helen Leech. Her father was an influential lawyer and also a novice photographer. The young girl had a brother, Walter Bertram, who was six years younger.

2024年12月18日 · In 1913, Potter married William Heelis, a respected solicitor from the Lake District. The couple settled into a harmonious life at Hill Top Farm, one of several properties Potter purchased in the Lake District. Her marriage to Heelis was a happy one, marked by mutual respect and a shared love for the natural beauty of the countryside.

Later, as an adult, William Heelis was in partnership as a Hawkshead solicitor (his office was in the 17th century Lake District townhouse -- now Beatrix Potter Gallery) and became in early middle age the devoted husband of the famous children's author, Beatrix Potter.

Find out where Beatrix Potter was born, their birthday and details about their professions, education, religion, family and other life details and facts.

In her forties, she married William Heelis, a local solicitor. She also began raising sheep and became a farmer, though she continued writing. She published 23 books. Potter did not have any children. She died of heart disease and pneumonia in Near Sawrey, Lancashire on 22 December 1943. Almost all of her money was left to the National Trust.

2024年12月4日 · Aged 47, Beatrix married William Heelis, a local solicitor, October 14, 1913 at Kensington, London. In 1926, with failing eye sight, Beatrix published her last book and turned her attention to sheep breeding, at which she was very successful. [2] .

They married on 15 October 1913. No photographs of the wedding day exist, although Potter's father Rupert, a barrister and prolific amateur photographer, did photograph the couple the previous day in the back garden of the Potter family home in Kensington, London. The ceremony was a quiet one and took place in the local church of St Mary Abbots.