Violet Myers

Violet Myers (11 May 1875 – 15 September 1943) was a classical singer and the wife of British diplomat William Algernon Churchill.

Hannah Violet Myers was born on 11 May 1875 in Birmingham, the oldest daughter of George Myers (b.1841) and Flora Wertheimer (1851–1921), granddaughter of Chief Rabbi Akiba Wertheimer and niece of German philosopher Constantin Brunner.

Her brother Walter was a distinguished physician and bacteriologist, and her younger sister Stella was a noted psychologist and psychotherapist.

Myers went to King Edward's School, Birmingham, and Edgbaston High School, and then in 1893 to Girton College, Cambridge where she read Mediaeval and Modern Languages, matriculating in 1896 and receiving an MA in 1928.

After graduating from university in 1898 she studied singing in London, Brussels, and Paris, and until her marriage in 1906 she gave recitals and also acted, including at the New Court Theatre (now known as the Royal Court Theatre), London. She performed classical concerts around the UK during the early 20th century and was described as "possessed of a beautiful soprano voice".

On 26 October 1906 she married British diplomat William Algernon Churchill, and accompanied him on his postings as British Consul in Amsterdam in 1906, in 1913,Milan in 1919,Palermo in 1928 and finally Algiers in 1934.

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