Lucy Kurtz
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Lucy Kurtz | |
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Born | Lucy Cometina Kurtz 11 April 1861 Berlin, Germany |
Died | 31 December 1937 Frenchpark, County Roscommon, Ireland | (aged 76)
Resting place | Portahard Church Cemetery, Frenchpark, County Roscommon, Ireland |
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Political party | Independent |
Spouse | Douglas Hyde (m. 1893; d. 1937) |
Children | 2 |
Lucy Cometina Kurtz (11 April 1861 – 31 December 1937) was the wife of the 1st President of Ireland, Douglas Hyde.[1]
She was born on 11 April 1861, in Berlin, Germany, and christened on 4 September 1861, in Liverpool, United Kingdom.[2]
She was the wife of Douglas Hyde, the first President of Ireland. She died on 31 December 1937, at Ratra in Frenchpark, County Roscommon in Ireland, just before her husband was elected as President.[citation needed]
References
Further reading
- Janet Egleson Dunleavy; Gareth W. Dunleavy (1991). Douglas Hyde, A Maker of Modern Ireland. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-06684-7.