MILWARD, Marguerite (née Rosa Marguerite Edge). Near Birmingham 1873 — 10/11.2.1953. British Artist. Daughter of Charles Alerton Edge, an architect. Educated at the art schools of Birmingham and Bromsgrove, further studies in Paris. Before WW I in Sri Lanka, in 1926 first visit to India. “As a sculptress she travelled in search of typical heads among certain primitive tribes and backward classes” all over India in the 1930s, also in Burma, Indonesia and North-West Africa. Married 1901 Philip Milwaed, a businessman.

Publications: “The Guar Festival of the Sawara”, Man 48, 1948, 16f. (in Orissa).

– Artist in Unknown India. 14+274 p. L. 1948.

Sources: J.H. Hutton, Man 53, 1953, 40; Wikipedia.