Sarah Elizabeth Hay-Williams Explained

Sarah Elizabeth Hay-Williams
Birth Name:	Lady Sarah Elizabeth Amherst
Birth Date:	9 July 1801
Nationality:	British
Known For:	watercolour painting
Children:	2, including Margaret
Parents:	William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst Sarah Archer

Lady Sarah Elizabeth Hay-Williams (née Amherst; 9 July 1801 – 8 August 1876) was an English artist and botanical illustrator.^{[1] [2]} She was born on 9 July 1801 to Sarah Amherst and William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst.^[3] She travelled with her parents to India and while there completed several watercolour paintings now held in the collection of the British Library.^{[4] [5] [6]} She later married Sir John Hay-Williams in 1842. In 1846 Hay-Williams contributed a watercolour to Edwards's Botanical Register. After returning to the United Kingdom she had two children including Margaret Verney.^[7] She died in 1876 at Chateau Rhianfa in Anglesey on 8 August 1876.^[8]

The leguminous tree Amherstia nobilis is named by Danish botanist Nathaniel Wallich in honor of her and her mother Sarah Amherst.^[9]

External links

• Web site: Lady Sarah Elizabeth Amherst . Watercolour World.

Notes and References

1. Book: Herbert, Eugenia W.. Flora's Empire: British Gardens in India. University of Pennsylvania Press. 2011. 9780812243260. Pennsylvania. 77.
2. Web site: AMHERST, Lady SARAH ELIZABETH. British Library Archives and Manuscripts Collection. 27 March 2019.
3. Web site: Sarah Elizabeth Amherst. www.ancestry.com. 2019-03-26.
4. Book: Losty, Jeremiah P.. Calcutta: city of palaces : a survey of the city in the days of the East India Company, 1690-1858. British Library. 1990. London. 96–98.
5. Web site: The Buland Darwaza of the Jami Masjid, Fatehpur Sikri, near Agra (U.P.). 1829, from a sketch made in 1827 . British Library . 5 August 2019.
6. Web site: East wing of Government House, Calcutta . British Library . 5 August 2019.
7. Web site: Sarah Elizabeth Williams. 2015. Geni. en-US. 2019-03-26.
8. Lindley. John. 1846. Trichosanthes colubrina. Edwards's Botanical Register. 32. 18. Biodiversity Heritage Library.
9. Book: Wallich, Nathaniel . 1830 . Plantae Asiaticae rariores . London . Treuttel and Würtz . 1 . 1.