| Collection Description | Lily (Lilo) Stephens, née Day (1888-1984), wife of Edward (Ned) Millington Stephens (1888-1955), barrister,
secretary to the drafting committee for the 1922 Constitution and the NE Boundary Bureau. The Day family had
a successful ladies' clothing shop in Cork city. The Stephens family home was 2 Harcourt Tce, Dublin, next door
to Hilton Edwards and Micheál MacLiammóir. Their country house and weekend retreat was Knockrath, near
Laragh, Co Wicklow (purchased in the 1930s), where they were near neighbours to Robert Barton and the
Millingtons (Synge/Stephens relatives).
Ann Welsted Porter-Hawkesworth, née Stephens (b. 28 September 1923; d. 7 December 2017) was the
youngest of three children of Ned and Lily Stephens; her brothers were Denis, a barrister and Brandon (Guff), a
surgeon. Ann was educated at Park House School, Morehampton Rd, Dublin and Huyton School, Liverpool.
She graduated as BA (TCD) in 1944 where she studied English and Spanish. Ann combined College studies
with work on the family farm in Wicklow, helping with ploughing and harvesting. She was a keen horsewoman.
She married (1st) Desmond Hawkesworth (1904-1970), assistant civil secretary (political), Sudan (1949-52) and
governor of Kassala Province (1952-54); Ann Porter joined her husband in Sudan in 1946 , settling in Wicklow
in 1954. She married (2nd) Robert Porter of Archer's Garage, Fenian St, Dublin; mother of Christopher,
Rosemary (Topsy) and Tim. [Trinity College Dublin] |
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