Kit Dealtry

Kathleen Clarice Louise Cornwell was born on 11 March 1872 in Melbourne, Australia. She was the daughter of Jemima Ridpath and George Cornwell, married in 1850. Her father was a railway guard who became a successful goldprospector in Australia, operating several mines, her eldest daughter, AliceCornwell (1952), did a great deal to assist him, and the familybecame spectacularly rich by the 1890s, and they returned to England,where Alice Cornwell (Stennard Robinson) bought the Sunday Times newspaper. On 19 February 1890, …