Was Elinor Brent-Dyers family like the Maynards?
• She only had one younger brother, Henzell, and he died when he was 17. Her father had left the family home when she was a toddler. Her mother, Nelly, did remarry in 1925. Elinor Brent-Dyer moved in with them in 1926 and moved with them to Hereford. After her step-father’s death in 1937, EBD continued to live with her mother and various lodgers, until her mother died in 1957. In 1964 Elinor Brent-Dyer bought a house with Phyllis Matthewman, whot she had known since childhood, and Phyllis’ husband Sydney in Redhill, Surrey where she lived until her death.
