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| Name |
Ursula Frances Elinor DARWIN |
| Born |
20 Aug 1908 |
| Gender |
Female |
| Person ID |
I3539 |
Young Kent Ancestors |
| Last Modified |
29 Mar 2021 |
| Father |
Bernard Richard Meirion DARWIN, b. 7 Sep 1876, of Gorringes, Downe, Kent, England  , d. 18 Oct 1961, Denton, Sussex, England (Age 85 years) |
| Mother |
Elinor Mary MONSELL, d. 2 May 1954 |
| Married |
31 Jul 1906 |
| Family ID |
F1405 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Julian Otto TREVALYAN, b. 20 Feb 1910, Dorking, Surrey, England , d. 12 Jul 1988, Hammersmith, London (Age 78 years) |
| Married |
30 Jul 1934 |
| Divorced |
Yes, date unknown |
| Children |
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| Last Modified |
20 Mar 2022 |
| Family ID |
F1409 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 2 |
Norman MOMMENS, b. 31 May 1922, Antwerp, Belguim of Newhaven, Sussex, England , d. 8 Feb 2000, Presicce, Italy (Age 77 years) |
| Married |
27 Jan 1950 |
| Last Modified |
20 Mar 2022 |
| Family ID |
F1410 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Ursula Frances Elinor Mommens (née Darwin, first married name Trevelyan) (born 20 August 1908) is a British potter. Mommens studied at the Royal College of Art, and later worked with Michael Cardew, OBE. She is the daughter of Bernard Darwin and his wife the engraver Elinor Monsell. Her brother was Sir Robert Vere Darwin. She is the great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin and the great-great-granddaughter of the potter Josiah Wedgwood. She married first Julian Trevelyan; their son is the film-maker Philip Trevelyan.
Mommens lives and works in South Heighton, a village and civil parish in the Lewes of East Sussex, England. The village is located seven miles south of Lewes.
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Ursula Mommens, in her own words:
I find clay wonderful material and I like firing it to 1300C - hoping that the results are a pleasure to use and good to look at and handle.
The most significant pottery education came when I worked with Michael Cardew at Wenford Bridge for six months at the end of the war.
Sources:
1. www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Ursula_Mommens and
2. www.theceramicartist.com/display1.asp?mainid=1&select=183
URSULA MOMMENS (b. 1908)
Unable to train as an apprentice potter, Ursula Mommens spent three years at the Central School and then worked under William Staite Murray at the Royal College of Art in 1930-32. She then set up on her own, converting an old cowhouse in Kent, using a flowerpot wheel and an oil kiln.
She went to work with Michael Cardew in Cornwall during the war and she cites him as her chief inspiration ever since. She set up her current pottery in Newhaven, Sussex in 1955 with Norman Mommens and continues to make both wood and gas fired functional stoneware with her own clay body and ash glazes.
Source: www.galeriebesson.co.uk/thejugshowartists.html
Address: The Pottery South Heighton Newhaven Sussex BN9 OHL
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