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On 20th November 1889 Hilda Anne Carline was born.
On 23rd February 1925 Stanley Spencer (age 33) and Hilda Anne Carline (age 35) were married.
Around 1937. [her husband] Stanley Spencer (age 45). "Family Group: Hilda (age 47), Unity and Dolls". Hilda being the artist's wife and Unity their child.
In May 1937 [her husband] Stanley Spencer (age 45) and Patricia Preece (age 43) were married in Maidenhead a week atter his divorce from Hilda Anne Carline (age 47). Her lover Dorothy Hepworth was present at the wedding (left in photo). She and Hepworth then went to 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 (age 45) and Hilda Anne Carline (age 47) were divorced. A week later he married Patricia Preece (age 43).
On 1st November 1950 Hilda Anne Carline (age 60) died. She was buried at Holy Trinity Church, Cookham [Map].
On 14th December 1959 [her former husband] Stanley Spencer (age 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."