page_title: Ethel Bilbrough
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Ethel Bilbrough / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Elmstead Grange 1879 in Chistlehurst. Design by Henry Jarvis who died in 1910. This looks like architects plan/ advert. The grange was built for a merchant. Iwas the home of Ethel Bilbrough and her husband. Its now Babington House School
context_page_description: Ethel Mary Bilbrough was a First World War diarist, artist and newspaper writer.
context_section_description: Ethel lived in Chislehurst, Kent, with her husband, Kenneth an insurance executive. The couple married in 1897 and were relatively wealthy living in Elmstead Grange surrounded by 22 acres of land. Kenneth's success derived from a fleet of clipper ships and marine insurance.
  They left Elmstead Grange in 1940 and it then became a private school called Babington House. After Kenneth's retirement, the couple lived in Wiltshire until Ethel's death in 1951, aged eighty-three.
caption: Their house Elmstead Grange in 1879
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