Ada Annie Watney (née Nunn, later Weguelin)
(1868-1938), Former wife of Claude Watney, and later wife of Bernard WeguelinSitter in 1 portrait
Ada Annie Watney (née Nunn, later Weguelin)
by Rita Martin
photogravure, published 1909
NPG Ax161390
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Patrick Heren
25 October 2022, 17:36
She was born Ada Nunn in 1868 to an English father and Portuguese mother, and began life as a ballet dancer. In 1889, she contracted a brief early marriage to the wealthy young American Sherman Martin who died of drink in 1894. Subsequently she married Claude Watney of the brewing dynasty, with whom. she shared a passion for motor cars. She was said to have driven 60,000 miles by 1904. She was a Roman Catholic who paid for the marble work in St Joseph's chapel in Westminster Cathedral, and later donated her country house at Hambledon, Surrey to an order of nuns. After Claude's death she married Bernard Weguelin. She died in 1938.