Hilda Anne Carline 1889-1950

On 20th November 1889 Hilda Anne Carline was born.

On 23rd February 1925 Stanley Spencer [aged 33] and Hilda Anne Carline [aged 35] were married.

On 31st December 1930 [her brother-in-law] Gilbert Spencer [aged 38] and Margaret Ursula Bradshaw [aged 32] were married at Holy Trinity Church, South Kensington, London. John Northcote Nash [aged 37] was his best man.

Around 1937. [her husband] Stanley Spencer [aged 45]. "Family Group: Hilda [aged 47], Unity and Dolls". Hilda being the artist's wife and Unity their child.

In May 1937 [her husband] Stanley Spencer [aged 45] and Patricia Preece [aged 43] were married in Maidenhead a week atter his divorce from Hilda Anne Carline [aged 47]. Her lover Dorothy Hepworth was present at the wedding (left in photo). She and Hepworth then went to St. Ives for the "honeymoon" while Spencer remained in Cookham to complete a painting. He, apparently, in his wife's absence slept with his former wife Hilda Anne Carline. Preece, as a consequence, refused to have sexual relations with him. He signed over his house to Preece. Preece and Hepworth evicted him from the house in 1938.

Patricia Preece: On 22nd January 1894 she was born. In May 1937 Stanley Spencer and Hilda Anne Carline were divorced. A week later he married Patricia Preece. On 19th May 1966 she died.

In May 1937 Stanley Spencer [aged 45] and Hilda Anne Carline [aged 47] were divorced. A week later he married Patricia Preece [aged 43].

On 1st November 1950 Hilda Anne Carline [aged 60] died. She was buried at Holy Trinity Church, Cookham [Map].

On 14th December 1959 [her former husband] Stanley Spencer [aged 68] died at the Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital on the Cliveden estate. His ashes were buried at Holy Trinity Church, Cookham [Map] in the same grave as his first wife Hilda Anne Carline: "To the memory of Stanley Spencer Kt. CBE RA, 1891–1959, and his wife Hilda, buried in Cookham cemetery 1950. Everyone that loveth is born of God and knoweth God: He that loveth not knoweth not God, for God is love."