Grace pailthorpe biography

British surrealist painter, surgeon and psychology researcher

Grace Winifred Pailthorpe (29 July 1883 – 19 July 1971) was a British surrealist painter, surgeon, and psychology researcher.

Early life and World War I

Pailthorpe was born in St Leonards-on-Sea in Sussex in 1883.^[1] She was the third child and the only daughter among the ten children born to Edward Wright Pailthorpe, a stockbroker, and Anne Lavinia Pailthorpe née Green, a seamstress, who were both members of the Plymouth Brethren, a strict and puritanical religious sect.^[2][3] The Plymouth Brethren were a separatist sect and the children were all home-schooled to limit their exposure to wider society.^[3] After Edward Pailthorpe died in 1904 the family moved to Southport in Lancashire.^[3]

Pailthorpe enrolled at the Royal College of Music in 1908 but soon decided to study medicine and by 1914 had qualified as a doctor at the Royal Victoria Infir