| Date | 21 November 2005 |
|---|---|
| Type | Blue Plaque |
| Subject | Person |
| Plaque | RBWM |
| Location | The Limes, Mill Lane, Windsor, SL4 5JE — View on Google Maps |
| Status | Current |
| Reference | PQ-0017 |
| Volume | Blue Plaques |
| Collection | Plaques |
Summary
| Name: | Mariquita Dorotea Francesca Eroles |
| Born: | 1811 |
| Place: | Barcelona |
| Died: | 1860 |
| Profession: | Social Reformer |
| Educated: | Studied law in Catalonia and was supported by her first husband’s family. |
| Famous for: | She married a brewer named David Reid in 1833, and her sister Rosa married Francis Beaufort Edgeworth, both in St Pancras. All four moved to Florence, but David died nine months later. She returned with a new baby to London, supported by Reid’s family. In 1834, Reid’s family supported her to return to Catalonia where she studied law. She married the Revd Robert Tennant in 1838, an Anglican pastor educated at Cambridge University. They went to Florence where he died suddenly in July 1842. Following this, she returned to the UK and moved into The Limes, which her sister owned. In mid-1849, she took in her first fallen woman and soon had 18 under her roof. Needing more space, the local rector, Revd TT Carter, provided two cottages in Nightingale Place, which became the House of Mercy. In the 1851 Census, she had a helper and 24 penitents. Due to ill health, she gave up in 1851 and moved somewhere local. Harriet Monsell, another clergy widow, took over at the House of Mercy. Mariquita is buried in the churchyard of St Andrew, Clewer. |
| Windlesora: | “Roses and Lilies – the Early Years of the Clewer Sisters” by Valerie Bonham in Windlesora 03 (1984) |
Images
Curator's Notes
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Blue Plaque for Mariquita Tennant
25 November 2005
A blue plaque honouring Mariquita Tennant, a 19th-century widow who helped abused women, was unveiled in Windsor.
Curator's References
Commemorative plaques on the RBWM website.
Maraquita Tennant, Nferranferrer, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons.