Chalmers, Esther Barbara, 1894-1983 (Scottish writer, daughter of Sir David Chalmers and Janet Alice Lorimer)
Dates
- Existence: 1894 - 1983
Biography
Esther Barbara Chalmers was born in Edinburgh in 1894, the youngest child of Chief Justice of British Guyana Sir David Chalmers (1835-1899) and Janet Alice Chalmers (née Lorimer) (1857-1946). She graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1922. She spent many years in Liege, Belgium, where she was involved in voluntary social work and activism. She returned to Scotland in the 1960s, where she researched her family history and wrote an autobiography.
Her siblings were: David Patrick Chalmers (b 1880), Hannah Helen Chalmers (b 1882), Alison Bell Chalmers (b 1884), Thomas Michael Chalmers (1886-1904), and James Lorimer Chalmers (b 1888).
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Incomplete letter from Gillespie & Paterson to Miss E. B. Chalmers [Esther Barbara Chalmers], c 1937
Incomplete letter in English from Gillespie & Paterson [lawyers] to Miss E. B. Chalmers [Esther Barbara Chalmers] on the subject of the division of John Henry Lorimer's assets dated c. 1937.
Letter from Esther Barbara Chalmers to Hannah Cassels im Thurn (née Lorimer), 1 September 1932
Letter in English from Esther Barbara Chalmers to Hannah Cassels im Thurn (née Lorimer) on the subject of the illness and will of 'Miss Marie', dated 1 September 1932.
Postcard from John Henry Lorimer to Esther Barbara Chalmers, 4 January 1936
Postcard in English from John Henry Lorimer to Esther Barbara Chalmers on the subject of Lorimer's lending of a sketch of Chalmers to the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, dated 4 January 1936.
Postcard of Castle St Arncroach, 31 October 1913
Postcard of "Castle St Arncroach" with photograph showing a horse and carriage and a family outside houses on Castle Street, Arncroach. Sent to Esther Chalmers from unknown sender on the subject of responding to a prior message and travel plans, dated 31 October 1913.