Boys' dress of magenta and black. It was worn by Theophilus Willway when he was about 6 years old and donated to the museum by his great neice and nephew, along with another of his dresses and a pair of shoes and a silk party dress of c.1895, worn by the donors' mother, Lucy Ainsworth (b.1884 - d. 1978)
Theophilus went on to become a photographer, first training under Frieze-Green of Bristol. He never married.
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Boys' dress of magenta and black. It was worn by Theophilus Willway when he was about 6 years old and donated to the museum by his great neice and nephew, along with another of his dresses and a pair of shoes and a silk party dress of c.1895, worn by the donors' mother, Lucy Ainsworth (b.1884 - d. 1978)
Theophilus went on to become a photographer, first training under Frieze-Green of Bristol. He never married.