WIMPERIS, FRANCES MARY (1840-1925) was born at Chester, her father, Edmund R. Wimperis, being manager of leadworks there. She spent her childhood in that town, the Kingsleys being their friends, and Charles Kingsley, who was canon of Chester, being leader of the naturalists' field club, of which she was a member. Miss Wimperis studied art at the Slade school in London, being under Sir E. J. Poynter for painting and under Legros for drawing. She came to Dunedin in 1879, and some time later was appointed art mistress at the Girls' High School, a position she occupied for 15 years. She did a good deal of painting herself, mostly flower studies and some landscapes, and exhibited regularly at the Otago Art Society, of which she was a member. She died on 19 May 1925. Her brother, Edmund M. Wimperis (1835-1900) was a vice-president of the Royal Institute.

Otago Daily Times, 21 May 1925; The Times, 28

Reference: Volume 2, page 266

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