Rhoda Wager (10 March 1875 – 1953) was a British jewellery designer who later settled in Australia.
She was born on 10 March 1875 in Mile End, London, one of five children of George Wager a warehouseman, and his wife Jane Annabella, née James.[1]
Wager grew up in Bristol, and studied there at a local art school, then trained in drawing and painting at the Glasgow School of Art from 1897 to 1903.[1] She also made jewellery with Bernard Cuzner.[1]
In 1913, Wager moved to Fiji, where she to lived on her brother's sugar plantation.[1] In 1918, she moved to Sydney,Australia.[1]
In March 1920, she married Percy G. Ashton, son of Julian Ashton CBE (1851–1942), an English-born Australian artist.[2]