Lady Charlotte Guest, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Lady Charlotte Guest

Welsh translator and business woman

Date of Birth: 19-May-1812

Place of Birth: Uffington, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 15-Jan-1895

Profession: writer, entrepreneur, translator, art collector, linguist

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Guest (née Bertie; 19 May 1812 – 15 January 1895), later Lady Charlotte Schreiber, was an English aristocrat who is best known as the first publisher in modern print format of The Mabinogion which is the earliest prose literature of Britain.
Guest established The Mabinogion as a source literature of Europe, claiming this recognition among literati in the context of contemporary passions for the Chivalric romance of King Arthur and the Gothic movement.
The title Guest used derived from a mediaeval copyist error already established in the 18th century by William Owen Pughe and the London Welsh societies. As an accomplished linguist, and the wife of a foremost Welsh ironmaster John Josiah Guest she became a leading figure in the study of literature and the wider Welsh Renaissance of the 19th century.
With her second husband, as Charles Schreiber, she became a well known Victorian collector of porcelain; their collection is held in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
She also created major collections of fans, games, and playing cards, which she gave to the British Museum.
She was noted as an international industrialist, pioneering liberal educator, philanthropist and elite society hostess.

William Walker (1791–1867)
Alternative names	William II Walker; William, II Walker
Description	British copperplate engraver
Date of birth/death	1 August 1791	7 September 1867
Location of birth/death	Musselburgh	London
Authority control	: Q8019909 VIAF: 86368970 ISNI: 0000 0000 6637 5260 ULAN: 500016006 LCCN: no2009058998 Oxford Dict.: 28519 WorldCat