Description

Marianne Estelle married a retired newspaper publisher Herbert Arthur Brider in Wanganui, 1944. They settled in Cambridge where she was a keen member of the Historical Society.

They resided in Thornton Road, then Bryce Street and finally in Grey Street. Herbert died in Cambridge, February 1955 and Estelle on 26th December 1959. They are both buried at Hautapu Cemetery.

Mrs Brider was the granddaughter of Rev Richard Davis who was sent to Aotearoa New Zealand, with his wife and six eldest children in 1824, by the church Missionary Society to become farmer to the Mission Station. 

Mrs Brider bequeathed twenty-seven artworks to Council in 1960. It is the most significant collection within the Council Art Collection in terms of the number of works, the calibre of artists and the provenance coming all from one donor.

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