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Rose Champion de Crespigny
Rose Champion de Crespigny, artist and spiritualist. From “Is there a Scientific Basis for Spiritualism?” ‘The Sphere’. 27 August 1927.
Born
Annie Rose Charlotte Key

(1859-11-09)9 November 1859
Died10 February 1935(1935-02-10) (aged 75)
Known forPainting, Writing
Spouse
Philip Augustus Champion de Crespigny
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(m. 1878)​

Rose Champion de Crespigny (born Annie Rose Charlotte Key; 9 November 1859 – 10 February 1935) was an English artist and author, who published many novels as Mrs Philip Champion de Crespigny.

Career

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Rose was the daughter of Admiral Sir Astley Cooper Key (who later changed the surname to Cooper-Key) and his wife, Lady Charlotte Lavinia (née McNeil). She was born 9 November 1859 in Kensington, and she was baptised 15 December 1859 at St John's, Notting Hill.[1]

As an artist, her paintings tended toward landscape. Her writing, after early forays into genealogical and local history, soon settled into popular fiction. Her work was described in a contemporary review as having "a certain graceful facility".[2] She was a leading member of the Ridley Art Club and the Lyceum Club in Piccadilly.[3] She was honorary principal of the British College of Psychic Science and a spiritualist.[4]

Personal life

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Rose married Philip Augustus Champion de Crespigny (1850-1912), a Royal Navy officer and son of Sir Claude William Champion de Crespigny, 3rd Baronet, on 1 October 1878 in Westminster. They had four children, including Frederick Philip Champion de Crespigny (1884–1947), who inherited the baronetcy, as the 7th Baronet, the year before his death.[5]

Selected publications

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  • Key to the Roll of the Huguenots Settled in the United Kingdom (1884)
  • The Roll of the Highland Clans of Scotland (1889)
  • The New Forest; its traditions, inhabitants and customs (1895)
  • From Behind the Arras (1902)
  • The Mischief of a Glove (1903)
  • The Rose Brocade (1905)
  • The Grey Domino (1906)
  • The Spanish Prisoner (1907)
  • My Cousin Cynthia, and Others (1908)
  • The Coming of Aurora (1909)
  • The Valley of Achor (1910)
  • The Five of Spades (1912)
  • The Mark (1912)
  • Hester and I (1915)
  • Stories of To-day and Yesterday (1917)
  • The Moving Finger (1919)
  • The Shears of Atropos (1919)
  • The Villa on the Borderive Road (1919)
  • The Witness in the Wood (1919)
  • The Case of Mr. Fitzgordon (1919)
  • The Voice (1919)
  • The Mind of a Woman (1922)
  • The Valley of Orchids (1923)
  • Tangled Evidence (1924), filmed as Tangled Evidence (1934)
  • The Missing Piece (1927)
  • The Dark Sea (1927)
  • Straws in the Wind (1928)
  • The Eye of Nemesis (1931)
  • Glimpses into Infinity (1931)
  • A Case for the C.I.D. (1933)
  • The Riddle of the Emeralds (1929)
  • This World and Beyond (1934)[6]

References

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  1. ↑ Annie Rose Charlotte Key; baptised 15 December 1859; born 9 November 1859 London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906
  2. ↑ The Spectator Review: The Rose Brocade 22 April (1905)
  3. ↑ ""Victoriennes and Modern Girls are "Sisters Under Their Skins"". The Daily Standard (Brisbane). No. 5334. Queensland, Australia. 22 October 1929. p. 2. Retrieved 25 September 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ↑ "De Crespigny, Rose Champion (1860-1935)". Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  5. ↑ Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1914. p. 585. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
  6. ↑ This World and Beyond. London: Cassell & Co. 1934.
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