Florence Davy Thompson

She was born on 13 September 1865 to Samuel Lucas and Florence Davy in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, where her father owned a brewery. Her mother was the daughter of the American consul in Leeds, and arranged for her own daughter to receive a superb education from a private tutor, William Dawson. In 1892 she married customs clerk William Henry Thompson and moved with him to Winnipeg, Manitoba. ==Career in Winnipeg==

On arriving in Canada, she demonstrated her artistic talent, winning prizes for her watercolour paintings at the 1892 Winnipeg Industrial Exhibition. The faculty of the university were anxious to establish a library and, in 1905 Vincent was asked to lead that effort. Thompson died suddenly of appendicitis in 1915. At the time of her death the library's collection had expanded to over 7,500 works. The man who would be hired to replace her as university librarian in 1916 was paid $2,000. ==See also==